The history of African American doctors in history is a story of brilliance forged against impossible odds.

Every March, National Women’s History Month serves as an opportunity to celebrate the groundbreaking accomplishments of women throughout history. From the earliest days of medicine, women have made ...

Medicine was an important part of medieval Islamic life; both rich and poor people were interested in health and diseases. Islamic doctors and a number of scholars wrote profusely on health and ...

Ancient medicine has evolved over time, some practices were bizarre, whereas some we use even now, from the concept of informed consent to several medicinal ingredients. Decades and centuries of ...

The therapeutic revolution: medicine, meaning, and social change in nineteenth-century America -- Medical text and social context: explaining William Buchan's Domestic medicine -- John Gunn: ...

Is medicine cure? Treatment? Healing? Understanding? Or a bit of all those things. Kenishiroti/Shutterstock What is medicine? We recognise it in all societies past ...

The accepted history of anatomy says that it was the ancient Greeks who mapped the human body for the first time. Galen, the “Father of Anatomy”, worked on animals, and wrote anatomy textbooks that ...

In 2010, a private-equity firm called Cerberus Capital Management, which is named for the three-headed dog that is said to guard the underworld, bought six Catholic hospitals in Massachusetts and ...

The history of medicine is filled with accounts of strange and often downright dangerous “treatments,” but these have sometimes opened the way for lifesaving discoveries. In this Curiosities of ...