Nursing may be the oldest known profession, as some nurses were paid for their services from the...
Medicine
We should take a hard look at how each of us may be undermining community health in...
James Graham, founder of the Temple of Health, benefitted from his undeniable flair for showmanship and his...
The history of surgery is a fascinating collection of knowledge from various civilizations dating back up to...
Reviewing the great surgical advances in the United States in the last century. By Dr. Yeu-Tsu Margaret...
Rasse des Noeux was a considerable bibliophile and man of letters. Why do we often sign and...
Forensic medicine, also called “medical jurisprudence” or “legal medicine,” emerged in the 1600s. The Rise of Forensics...
Retracing the history of media technologies in the practice of medicine. Reba Benschoter readied herself to speak...
She used her skills as a teacher to become not only the first American female physician but...
Most medical historians agree that one of the most important advances in medicine was the use of...
During the devil’s last apogee in early modern Europe, demonic afflictions were taken seriously by both priests...
Measles cases have spiked as a growing number of anti-vaxxers, opting out of immunizations for their kids,...
Even before the 1952 and 1953 outbreaks, labs had been worked diligently to find a cure for...
Why are prescription drugs so inaccessible and expensive in the United States? By Devin Duffy Rebecca Hovde...
Considered in historical context, Purdue’s plan to peddle opioid addiction medicines to vulnerable people is not so...
Anna Darrow could set a broken leg with some string and a flatiron. By Amy Lifson A...
The ancient Egyptians experienced the same wide array of disease that people do in the present day....
The measles outbreak traced back to Disneyland has spread to eight states, with as many as 95...
Today’s status of the profession and those who practice it results from an evolution over thousands of...
The London Clinic / Photo by Ben Gilbert, Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons What have snakes, unicorns and...
Patents, patients, and stunted progress in pursuit of the dollar. By Deborah Gleeson and Hazel Moir Efforts...
Big corporations, not street dealers, are the true authors and profiteers of the opioid crisis. By Domenica...
Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons It’s 15 years since England’s last public post-mortem, but what was the history...
Mortsafes at Kinnernie graveyard, Aberdeenshire / Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons When an expansion in the study of anatomy...
Rebecca Rego Barry on Dr. David Hosack, the doctor who attended Alexander Hamilton to his duel (and...
The illustrations in medieval herbals are beautiful and mysterious. But if you know how to read them,...
Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons An exquisite treasury of illustrations and objects, the Ayurvedic Man picture book presents a visual history...
Saltaire Victorian village – Bradford, Yorkshire, England. UNESCO World Heritage Site As a regional forensic expert, Thomas...
The diagnosis: a skeletal doctor measures a patient’s pulse, L. Crusius / Wellcome Collection, Creative commons Texts that...
An 18th-century trade card reveals a lot more than its owner might have intended. By Julia Nurse...