Investigating health and hygiene in 18th century Britain, against a backdrop of industrialization and the subsequent over-crowding...
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Retracing the history of media technologies in the practice of medicine. Reba Benschoter readied herself to speak...
Analyzing the evolving state of British health in the nineteenth century and how Livingstone’s perceptions of this...
In Peru, the challenge of providing health care to the country’s citizens has spurred interest in alternative...
Even before the 1952 and 1953 outbreaks, labs had been worked diligently to find a cure for...
For nearly 50 years academic and popular writers ignored the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. A hundred years...
Sforza was an early scientist who experimented with chemistry and medicine. By Amy Lifson Caterina Sforza, the...
In this period, there was no tradition of scientific medicine, and observations went hand in hand with...
The ancient Egyptians experienced the same wide array of disease that people do in the present day....
Today’s status of the profession and those who practice it results from an evolution over thousands of...
Eighteenth-century medical practitioners faced menaces like cholera, dysentery, measles, mumps, rubella, smallpox, syphilis, typhus, typhoid, tuberculosis, and...
Is the human body innately terrestrial, unsuited to a prolonged time away from its earthly element? On...
A discussion of Avicenna’s 11th-century points of view on rabies and compare them with modern medical knowledge....
Among the first three manuscripts written in Persian, Akhawayni’s Hidayat al-muta’allemin fi al-tibb was the most significant work compiled...
Rebecca Rego Barry on Dr. David Hosack, the doctor who attended Alexander Hamilton to his duel (and...
Acoustical science fundamentally transformed the ways that Victorians conceptualized the relations between aesthetics and the body. This...