This episode features the renowned playwright and poet Frank McGuinness who gave a paper entitled "Living With Mortality - A Short Stay in Switzerland" on February 25th 2010 in the UCD Humanities Institute. Frank spoke about the issue of mortality as treated in drama from Greek theatre to contemporary work, including his adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts and his screenplay for the widely acclaimed and BAFTA nominated BBC drama "A Short Stay in Switzerland" which tells the story of Dr Anne Turner who chose to end her life in a Dignitas clinic in Switzerland in January 2006.
Dr Phil Gorey (UCD). Municipal gospel or necessity? Belfast Corporation and the regulation of midwives 1911-1918.
Dr Lynsey Black (Maynooth University). Diagnosing insanity: women, murder and mental health in twentieth-century Ireland.
Dr Fionnuala Walsh (UCD).'You will feel that you are being of some use' - Irish nurses and the Great War 1914-1918.
Dr Jane Hand (Warwick). Health on the High Street - Consumerism, the NHS and Low-Fat Diets in Britain since the 1970s.
Positive in Prison: HIV stories from a Dublin Jail is a docu drama podcast based on research by Dr Janet Weston (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine).
Dr Marc Caball (UCD). Patrick Browne (c. 1720 – 1790), an Irish botanist and physician in the West Indies.
Victoria Williams (Food Matters) -'Reform Through Food: Working with Prisoners to Policy Makers, No Promises, No Lies and Back Door Diplomacy' at 'Inside Reform: Prison Healthcare Campaigns, Past and Present'.
Dr Holly Dunbar (UCD) - 'The Case of Prisoner Alpha: Hearing Prisoners' Voices Advocating for Health Reform' at 'Inside Reform: Prison Healthcare Campaigns, Past and Present'.
Dr Rachel Bennett (Warwick) - 'Identifying and Advocating for Women's Health: The Duchess of Bedford's 1919 Committee of Enquiry into Medical Care in Holloway Prison' at 'Inside Reform: Prison Healthcare Campaigns, Past and Present'.
Anita Dockley (Howard League) - 'New Media, Old News: Strategies for Getting Penal Issues in Popular Discourse' at 'Inside Reform: Prison Healthcare Campaigns, Past and Present'.
Dr Janet Weston (LSHTM) - 'Reforming Prison Healthcare in the 1980s: The Impact of HIV and AIDS' at 'Inside Reform: Prison Healthcare Campaigns, Past and Present'.
Fiona Ni Chinneide (Irish Penal Reform Trust) - 'Improving Prison Health: Using Advocacy Tools to Effect Change' at 'Inside Reform: Prison Healthcare Campaigns, Past and Present'.
Dr Catherine Cox (UCD). Welcome to 'Inside Reform: Prison Healthcare Campaigns, Past and Present', a policy workshop.
Dr Michael Sappol (Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study). Anatomy's photography - objectivity, showmanship and the reinvention of the anatomical image, 1860–1950.
Dr David Durnin (University College Dublin). 'It is our duty': Medical provision and the Irish experience of the First World War.
Dr James McGeachie (Ulster University). A network of enterprises and a centre of calculation: becoming Sir William Wilde.
Dr Rosemary Wall (University of Hull). The British Red Cross in 1916: Conscription, the Easter Rising and the Battle of the Somme.
Dr Janet Greenlees (Glasgow Caledonian University). The tenuous relationship between gender, health and work, c.1860-1960.
Dr Alice Mauger (University College Dublin). The cost of insanity: public, voluntary and private asylum care in nineteenth-century Ireland.