BOOK REVIEWS
2024
F.A. Jonsson and C. Wennerlind, Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis (H-Environment).
A. Ritch, Sickness in the Workhouse: Poor Law Medical Care in Provincial England (Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences).
2023
L. Galpin, Male Suicide and Masculinity in 19th-century Britain: Stories of Self-Destruction (Cultural and Social History)
G. Jones, Doctors for Export: Medical Migration from Ireland c.1860-1960 (Bulletin for the History of Medicine).
2022
N. Shah, Refusal to Eat: A Century of Prison Hunger Strikes (Journal of Social History).
Manon Mathias and Alison Moore (eds), Gut Feeling and Digestive Health in Nineteenth-Century Literature, History and Culture (Literature and Medicine).
E. Williams, Appetite and its Discontents: Science, Medicine and the Urge to Eat, 1750-1950 (American Historical Review)
2021
N. Durbach, Many Mouths: The Politics of Food in Britain from the Workhouse to the Welfare State (Journal of Modern History)
Liat Ben-Moshe, Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalisation and Prison Abolition (H-Dis)
Andrew B. Liu, Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India (British Journal for the History of Science)
2020
Kevin Grant, Last Weapons: Hunger Strikes and Fasts in the British Empire (Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences)
Anne Harrington, Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness (Pharmacy in History)
2019
Owen Davies, A Supernatural War: Magic, Divination and Faith during the First World War (Reviews in History)
Christine Kinealy, Jason King and Gerard Moran (eds), Children and the Great Hunger in Ireland (Cultural and Social History)
Michael Dwyer, Strangling Angel: Diphtheria and Childhood Immunization in Ireland (Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences)
Margaret Hickey, Ireland's Green Larder (Food and History)
Jacqueline H. Wolf, Cesarean Section: An American History of Risk, Technology and Consequence (Canadian Bulletin of Medical History)
P. McDonagh and C. Goodey, Intellectual Disability: A Conceptual History, 1200-1900 (H-Dis)
2018
James Kelly, Food Rioting in Ireland in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries - the Moral Economy and the Irish Crowd (Irish Historical Studies)
Liam Kennedy, Unhappy the Land: The Most Oppressed People Ever, the Irish? (Irish Studies Review)
Randall Packhard, A History of Global Public Health (Canadian Bulletin of Medical History)
2017
Rob Boddice, The Science of Sympathy: Morality, Evolution and Victorian Civilisation (British Journal for the History of Science)
Brendan Walsh, Hearing Voices: The History of Psychiatry in Ireland (Irish Historical Studies)
Petteri Pietikainen, Madness: A History (H-Dis)
P. Melzer, Death in the Shape of a Young Girl: Women’s Political Violence in the Red Army Faction (Canadian Journal of History)
2016
J. Herbert, Testosterone (Times Literary Supplement)
C.S. Brophy and C. Delay (eds), Women, Reform and Resistance in Ireland, 1850-1950 (Irish Historical Studies)
M. Smith, Another Person’s Poison: A History of Food Allergy (British Journal for the History of Science)
D. Wilson, The Making of Modern British Bioethics (Canadian Bulletin of Medical History)
C. Helstosky, The Routledge History of Food (Food, Culture and Society)
P. Freeman, J. E. Chaplin and K. Albala (eds), Food in Time and Place (Food, Culture and Society)
J. Cooper, The Protestant Orphan Society and its Social Significance in Ireland, 1828-1940 (Irish Historical Studies)
2015
J. Bourke, The Story of Pain: From Prayers to Painkillers (British Journal for the History of Science)
R. Boddice, Pain and Emotion in Modern History (British Journal for the History of Science)
L. Ben-Moshe, C. Chapman and A. C. Carey (eds), Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada (H-Dis)
M. Luddy and J. M. Smith (eds), Children, Childhood and Irish Society, 1500 to the Present (Irish Historical Studies)
P. Sargent, Wild Arabs and Savages: A History of Juvenile Justice in Ireland (Irish Historical Studies)
D. Brennan, Irish Insanity, 1800-200 (Irish Studies Review)
C. Debenham, Birth Control and the Rights of Women (Women’s History Review)
2014
J. Reinarz and L. Schwarz (eds), Medicine and the Workhouse (Canadian Journal of History)
L. MacAtackney, An Archaeology of the Troubles: The Dark Heritage of Long Kesh/Maze Prison (Irish Economic and Social History)
W. Murphy, Political Imprisonment in Ireland, 1912-22 (Irish Studies Review)
R. Hayward, The Transformation of the Psyche in British Primary Care, 1880-1970 (Medical History)
A. Hornblum, J. L. Newman and G. J. Dober, Against their Will: The Secret History of Medical Experimentation on Children in Cold
War America (Medical History)
E. Farrell, A Most Diabolical Deed: Infanticide and Irish Society, 1850-1900 (Reviews in History)
2013
M. Jackson, The Age of Stress: Science and the Search for Stability (British Journal for the History of Science)
I. Zweiniger-Bargielowska, R. Duffett and A. Drouard (eds), Food and War in Twentieth Century Europe (Canadian Bulletin of Medical History)
K. Rafter (ed.), Irish Journalism before Independence: More a Disease than a Profession (Political Studies Review)
P. M. Prior (ed.), Asylums: Mental Health Care and the Irish (Social History of Medicine)
L. Carroll, In the Fever King’s Preserves: Sir Charles Cameron and the Dublin Slums (Social History of Medicine)
M. Cappello, Swallow: Foreign Bodies: Their Ingestion, Inspiration and the Curious Doctor who Extracted Them (Social History of Medicine)
2012
M. Harrison, The Medical War: British Military Medicine in the First World War (Canadian Bulletin of Medical History)
C. Rattigan, What Else Could I Do? Single Mothers and Infanticide in Ireland, 1900-1950 (H-Albion)
C. Foley, The Last Irish Plague (Irish Studies Review)
M. Jackson (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine (Reviews in History)
2011
S. Szreter and K. Fisher, Sex Before the Sexual Revolution: Intimate Life in England, 1918-63 (Canadian Journal of History)
B. Pati and M. Harrison (eds), The Social History of Health and Medicine in Colonial India (Contemporary South Asia)
2010
L. J. Davis, Obsession: A History (Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences)
A. Carden-Coyne and C. Forth (eds.), Cultures of the Abdomen: Diet, Digestion and Fat in the Modern World (Medical History)
S. Bannerjee, Muscular Nationalism: Gender, Violence and Empire in India and Ireland, 1914-2004 (Nations and Nationalism)
A. Yuriko, Feeding the Nation: Nutrition and Health in Britain during World War One (Social History of Medicine)
2009
E. Klader, The Body in Medical Culture (H-Dis)
A. Mangham, Violent Women and Sensation Fiction: Crime, Medicine and Victorian Popular Culture (Medical History)