Severe dementia appears strikingly rare in ancient sources, raising questions about how aging, environment, and medical understanding...
Psychiatry
Schizophrenia has long existed in human experience, but its meaning has shifted across time, from divine madness...
Blaming behavior we don’t like on a disease means less accountability, and is bad for those who...
Examining philosophical and conceptual foundations set by philosophy in Classical Greece. Abstract The object of study of...
Those who undergo a traumatic incident in their life will know how difficult it is to cope...
The story of a flamboyant doctor whose famous fans included Dickens. But his experiments with hypnosis eventually met...
In the 1950s, many psychiatrists thought that homosexuality could be reformed. Czech psychiatrist Kurt Freund found that...
From the Guild-Book of the Barber-Surgeons of the city of York / British Library, Public Domain Medicine...
John W. Waterhouse, “A Mother Bringing Her Sick Child to the Temple of Asklepios”, 1877 (Image in...
William W Sargant, 1948. Wellcome Library reference: PP/WWS/A/19. Mike Jay delves into the personal papers of one of...