The madhouses and mad doctors of Ulster.

Traumatic pasts: history, psychiatry, and trauma in the modern age, 1870–1930

Jonathan Andrews and Andrew Scull come at the social history of medicine from very different angles. Scull is a longestablished figure known for his sweeping and controversial sociological theories based on historical material. Andrews is more junior, but has already made a distinguished contribution to the study of British madness between c. 1600 and 1900. His is closely archival work backed u...

Patients and Their Doctors

Northern Ireland Council for Postgraduate Education

IN the last issue of the Journal it was stated that during 1972 the Council had three main objectives: the implementation of plans for the postgraduate training of married women doctors; the setting up of a career advisory and information service; and the approval or recognition of hospital posts as suitable for postgraduate training by the various colleges and faculties. Good progress has been...

Doctors' knowledge of post traumatic neurosis.

Most studies which looked at the civil disturbances in Northern Ireland for the 25 years until the ceasefire declarations in late 1994 concluded that the impact on the psychological health of the population was insubstantial. In the study reported below doctors as a group were quite accurate in identifying the features of post traumatic stress disorder (P.T.S.D.) on a questionnaire but there is...

Dr Elizabeth Gould Bell (1862 – 1934) - The First Woman to Graduate In Medicine And Practice In Ulster

On 11 October 2016, the Ulster History Circle unveiled a blue plaque in commemoration of Dr Elizabeth Gould Bell MB BCh BAO (Royal University of Ireland) at the entrance of Daisyhill Hospital, Newry, Co Down, Northern Ireland. As one of the first female doctors to qualify in medicine in Ulster in 1893, against all the odds, she entered general practice in Belfast. She became a leading member of...