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 ...

Rossi Thomson/Reproduced by concession of the University of Padua Andreas Vesalius performed dissections of human bodies in the courtyard of the Palazzo Bo (Credit: Rossi Thomson/Reproduced by ...

The professionalisation of medicine has often excluded and erased women from its history. Becky Cridford , Marina Politis , and Jenna Chambers call for doctors to reclaim the wise women who came ...

Homeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania is established; later renamed Hahnemann Medical College. A graduate of the first class, Ann Preston becomes dean of Female Medical College of Pennsylvania ...

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 ...

Back in the 1990s, the word “alternative” was a synonym for hip and forward-thinking. There was alternative music and alternative energy; there were even high-profile alternative presidential ...

Saint Louis University School of Medicine is proud to be part of the 450-year tradition of Jesuit education. The School of Medicine trains physicians and biomedical scientists, conducts medical ...

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 ...

Explore our campus, meet lecturers and current students, and learn more about what it's like to study at Manchester. Study at the UK's leading centre for the integrated historical study of science, ...