Medicine & Disease

In the 1950s Mills & Boon’s medical romances helped make the NHS more appealing to an ambivalent British public. 

What do attitudes towards fatigue reveal about morality and illness?

The rise of laboratory science in the late 19th century put stark focus on the moral cost of medical innovation.

Driven to extremes by the expectations loaded on them, some men turned to self-castration. 

The medieval approach to emergency planning may offer lessons for the 21st century.

Robert Burton’s encyclopedic curiosity The Anatomy of Melancholy continues to offer remarkable insights into mental health.

Should the finger of blame be pointed at the marmot for the global spread of the plague?  

When widespread vaccination was introduced there were objections – some justified, some not.