Title: Assistant Professor of History and the Johanna and Alfred Hurley *61 P76 P82 P86 University Preceptor Guenther trained as an M.D. in Germany before she earned a Ph.D. in the history of science ...

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 ...

Humans took a long, weird road to modern medicine. We don’t have everything figured out yet, but at least we’ve learned not to drink the feces of cholera victims and never to plug dental cavities with ...

A phenomenon well familiar to historians of medicine is the psychic epidemic, an illness attribution that spreads epidemically, then is forgotten. In the nineteenth century, psychiatry fostered such ...

When one thinks about medical doctors, what comes to mind are years of biology and physics. In fact, these are required courses for all pre-med students. Yet, what makes a good doctor is larger than ...

In his new book, “Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present,” Frank M. Snowden, a professor emeritus of history and the history of medicine at Yale, examines the ways in which disease ...