On Jan. 28, the University Writing Program held the second annual installment of its Conversations about Writing & Medicine ...

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 ...

Queen Mary University of London has a proud 240-year history of improving lives and access to higher education, built on four ...

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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

Ancient Greco-Roman texts discuss the use of excrement in medicine, but this is the first direct evidence we've found that confirms the written descriptions.

Alex Broadbent receives funding from the National Research Foundation of South Africa. What is medicine? We recognise it in all societies past and present. But the nature of medicine differs so ...