History

Nearly two decades after it closed, the South Carolina State Hospital continues to hold a palpable mystique in Columbia and throughout the st...

Clara Barton was one of those women of the nineteenth century who was determined to make the world a better place. She was determined to hel...

Do you know anyone who has died of puerperal fever? Probably not, thanks to this groundbreaking essay published by Oliver Wendell Holmes in 1...

Hippocrates earned the title “Father of Medicine” for his extensive work in Ancient Greece. He effectively established medicine a...

Hippocrates revolutionized the study of medicine in Ancient Greece, but some of his ideas still influence the medical field today. In his boo...

Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, this Very Short Introduction surveys the history of medicine fro...