Black box warnings are the most severe regulatory alerts used by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), reserved for medications […]
Registration of Maternity Homes Act, 1934: Institutional inadequacy and indifference in Irish maternity homes
A breaking headline from 2014 reads: “Ireland Investigates Alleged Discovery of 800 Babies in Sewer Tank.”[1] Historian Catherine Corless, who […]
“Presumptive Testimony Only”: From Esther Davis to Patience Rousseau, Two Centuries of Criminalizing Pregnancy Loss
In summer 1802, a Baltimore jury convicted Esther Davis of murdering her newborn child. The newspapers that carried the story […]
Love Transcripts: The Hidden Lesbian Love Letters of Dr Kathleen Lynn
Upon entering the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI) and walking through its halls, the most prominent thing that […]
Poison for Penitence: A Hydrogen Peroxide Experiment on Infants in Dublin’s Regina Coeli Hostel
On October 18, 1947, the medical officer of Regina Coeli Hostel wrote: “Of 14 infants to whose feeds Hydrogen Peroxide […]
From One to Many
Fifty years ago, the notion of Ireland as one of the leading countries on transgender recognition would have been laughable. […]
“Your God Cannot Be Mine:” British Reactions to the 1992 Irish X Case
Around the world, abortion and reproductive rights are under fire.[1] Women in the Irish Free State are all too familiar […]
Confining yet Convenient: Using Gender Norms to Defend Oneself in Cases of Rural Spousal Violence in Post-Independence Ireland
Before divorce was legalized in Ireland in 1995, spouses desperate for freedom from an unhappy marriage sometimes turned to killing […]
Through the Lens of Dance Medicine: Shared Identity in Patient-Provider Relationships
Does a diabetes educator need to be a person with diabetes to provide quality services to a patient? Does a […]
Sexual Education in Schools: The Harm of Exclusion
We teach our children about the birds and the bees, but for some, this talk is as foreign as the […]
