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If you had asked a random astronomer in the 1930s how all of the elements in the universe were produced, they would have had a ready and...

Heroes are supposed to be monodimensional, startling and exceptional in one narrow aspect of life and a complex, barely functioning mess...

Pandemics. Having raised their heads every century or so to spread primal panic and horror on a continental scale, they were something we...

Her mother was raised in a brothel, and her son was Ronald Reagan. Take any section of Dr Margaret Chung’s (1889–1959) life, and lay it...

At 9 years old, a girl named Yamuna Joshee was married to her tutor, a man twenty years her senior, who thereupon changed her first name...

Generally, our experience of a particular medicine is as a great faceless thing the name of which we do not know until we desperately...

Prior to the eighteenth century, the answer to the question, ‘Who was allowed to practise medicine?’ was relatively simple: just about...

In 1912, it was against the law in the United States to publish a book that contained descriptions of birth control methods. It was...

As we have seen, the nineteenth century boasts a rich roster of medical women, any one of whom is the stuff of heroes: the trailblazing...

In the seventeenth century, smallpox ravaged Europe with a persistent ferocity beyond reckoning. At its height, it killed 400,000...

She had founded first England’s and then Scotland’s first medical school for women, and been instrumental in the passing of the Medical...