A closer look at Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong, the most densely populated place that ever existed ~humanities.history Video 17:49, published Jul 24 2023 40 votes
The psychedelic drug that conquered Europe ~humanities.history Video 11:29, published Mar 8 2023 11 votes
Sweden set up a eugenics plan, grounded in the science of racial biology, between 1934 and 1976 – between 20,000 and 33,000 Swedes were forced to be sterilised ~humanities.history Article 1004 words 12 votes
He spurred a revolution in psychiatry. Then he ‘disappeared.’ ~humanities.history Article 2411 words 7 votes
George Washington and the first mass military inoculation ~humanities.history Article 604 words 6 votes
The Polish doctors who used science to outwit the Nazis ~humanities.history Article 7684 words, published Aug 14 2017 8 votes
How New York City vaccinated six million people in less than a month ~humanities.history Article 2222 words 8 votes
The bombing and the breakthrough: How a chemical weapons disaster in World War II led to a US cover-up - and a new cancer treatment ~humanities.history Article 6782 words 11 votes
The Hongerwinter: How famine under the Nazis revealed the cause of celiac disease ~humanities.history Article 1605 words, published Mar 29 2018 6 votes
America: 200 years of responding to epidemics from The Saturday Evening Post ~humanities.history Link 4 votes
In 1721, Boston’s colonists greeted Cotton Mather’s proposal for smallpox inoculation with a terror that bordered on hysteria ~humanities.history Article 1187 words 4 votes
One in five University of Otago, New Zealand medical students to be denied graduation after falsifying overseas placement records education.higher Article 684 words 6 votes
4,000-year-old mummies showed early signs of heart disease ~humanities.history Article 511 words 8 votes
The anti-medical dogma of Christian Science led my father to an agonising death. Now the church itself is in decline – and it can’t happen fast enough. religion Article 4552 words 9 votes
I'm a Christian doctor and I help women have abortions. Here's how I reconcile that. religion Article 908 words 5 votes
The laughing gas parties of the 1700s — and how they sparked a medical breakthrough ~humanities.history Article 6 votes
The top six medical inventions during the American civil war ~humanities.history Article 1732 words, published Jan 28 2019 9 votes
In need of cadavers, 19th-century medical students raided Baltimore’s graves ~humanities.history Article 2010 words 7 votes
What Ötzi the Iceman’s tattoos reveal about copper age medical pactices ~humanities.history Article 525 words 6 votes
Jehovah’s Witness girl could receive blood against her will during childbirth theology religion Article 693 words 8 votes
Japanese medical school deducted points from exam scores of female applicants education.higher Article 587 words, published Aug 2 2018 12 votes