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Prisoners, Medical Care and Entitlement to Health in England and Ireland, 1850-2000

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        • Catherine Cox: Opening Address
        • Fíona Ní Chinnéide: Improving Prison Health
        • Janet Weston: The Impact of AIDS
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        • Holly Dunbar: The Case of Prisoner Alpha
        • Anita Dockley: New Media, Old News
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        • HIV/AIDs, Public Health, and Prisons in the Late-Twentieth Century
        • Identifying and Advocating for Women’s Health
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        • Political Prisoners, Their Advocates, and Their Health
        • Humanitarianism, Health and Rights in Nineteenth-Century Prison Practice
        • Re/Forming the Psychopathic Personality: From Psychiatric Construct to Political Expedient
    • Witness Seminar: HIV/AIDs in Prison (LSHTM)
    • Diet and Nutrition (Warwick)
    • The Prison and Mental Health (London)
      • Introduction
      • Agenda
      • Speakers
      • Background Reading
        • Prisoners, Insanity and the Pentonville Model Prison Experiment
        • Insanity and Separate Confinement at the Liverpool Borough Gaol
        • Crisis and Controversy: Prison Mental Healthcare in the Late Twentieth Century
      • Speakers’ slideshow presentations
        • Mentally Disordered Prisoners: Drawing on History
        • Suicide Risk and the Young Offender, 1945-1973
        • Crisis and Controversy: Prison Mental Healthcare in the Late 20th Century
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        • What Can Performance Bring to the Table?
        • Using Innovative Theatrical Strategies to Explore Solitary Confinement
        • The Asylum Trilogy: theatrical performances exploring the history of mental illness and its institutions
      • Disorder Contained: Reading
        • The Prison Cell: Thirteen by Seven by Nine
        • The Prison Officers
        • Prisoners, Insanity and the Pentonville Model Prison Experiment
        • Insanity and Separate Confinement at the Liverpool Borough Gaol
        • Separate Confinement and Insanity at Mountjoy Convict Prison, Dublin 1850-55
    • Beyond Reading Gaol: Prison Writings and Mental Illness
    • Positive in Prison: HIV stories from a Dublin Jail (Docu drama)
    • Holloway Prison: History and Health Exhibition
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Month: July 2017

New Participatory Art Project

‘The Trial’ is the working title for a new visual art project due for public exhibition in April 2018.

Health Inside …

‘Health Inside: Thinking About Prisoners’ Right to Healthcare’ is a new public art project due for exhibition in June 2018, which will focus on health and welfare provision in Irish and English prisons.

‘In Humanity’s Machine’: Prison Health and History

Fiachra Byrne provides an overview of the research project and his own strand on juveniles in the latest issue of the Howard League’s ECAN Bulletin (July 2017)

Recent Posts

  • Prisoners beyond the walls: prisoner rights, release, and continuity of care
  • Work on The Trial continues….
  • Suffragette Diary
  • Positive in Prison: HIV/AIDS in a Dublin Jail
  • Prison Chaplains

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