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IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu

The impact of the Anatomy Act in Ireland: Body supply, medical education and professionalisation in Ireland:1832 to 1921

Tildelt: kr 40 000

Prosjektnummer:

195832

Prosjektperiode:

2009 - 2009

This project studies the history of anatomy in Ireland (1832 to 1921), a much-neglected topic compared to the level and intensity of research on England. The Anatomy Act determined which poor bodies, and in what numbers, could be used for medical research purposes. This study will examine Irish medical schools in Belfast, Cork, Dublin, and Galway to address the central hypothesis that an analysis of the impact of the Anatomy Act is a key interpretational factor in understanding changes in Irish medical ed ucation. This project considers the impact of the 1832 Anatomy Act on body supplies to, and medical education in Irish Medical Schools. Sources such as mortuary books, correspondence, hospital records, cemetery records, poor law data and newspapers will be collected from hospital archives, record offices, the National Archives (Dublin and Belfast). These records will be subject to the following methodological approaches: record linkage, quantitative analysis, qualitative analysis of individual life stori es and administrative phases, and linguistic analysis. The project addresses a number of core goals: (1) To write a history of the development of the five Schools and to compare and contrast their experiences. (2) To ascertain to what extent the medica l curriculum in human anatomy was dependent on body-supply trends. (3) To reconstruct the nature of that body supply over the period from the passing of the Act to the advent of the Irish Free State. (4) To study the place of anatomy training in contem porary understandings of a 'good' medical education and professional status, comparing such perceptions to the attitudes of the wider public towards anatomy.

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IS-MOBIL-Mobilitetsprogr.f.utl.Ph.D-stu