International Health Humanities Network Membership

I am lecturer in history at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Currently PI on Irish Records Linkage, 1864-1913 an Irish Research Council Reserach Project Grant, I work on health histories in the late nineteenth and early twentienth centuries. In partnership with the Digital Repository of Ireland, the aim of the IRC project is to use advances in Big Data technologies to reconstitute virtual families from vital registration data and to provide a more in depth analysis of Irish maternal and infant mortality, with a particular focus on Dublin. My personal research examines how poor Irish emigrants medicalise in the transnational context. It uses a multi-disciplinary approach to conventional historical sources to examine how cultural factors affect how medicalisation evolves.