It started with the ancient Greek word for crab. Here’s what happened after that.
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People once used tooth powders made from crushed bone or shells to whiten their teeth. Others rinsed their mouth out with pee. Yuck!
Simplistic stories often become the popular ones.
The archival trove chronicles the extreme measures administrators took to ensure Black sharecroppers did not receive treatment for the venereal disease.
Antibiotics have been around for less than a century. But as resistant bacteria become increasingly difficult to treat, we risk a greater number of deaths from infections.
Insomnia is torture, literally, and getting enough sleep a modern obsession. Here’s why.
In my research, I try to uncover the cultural significance of the placenta and afterbirth in premodern Europe to help us better understand the social and medical history of this important organ.
Using urine in pregnancy testing dates as far back as ancient Egypt.
There’s a long history in our society of period pain being played down, or just considered “normal”. But there’s plenty of evidence in the historical records that women have always experienced it.
Speculums can be painful and invasive for many women.
Each of these five drugs have brought some incredible benefits. But they’ve usually also come with a legacy of complications.
Resuscitation has thankfully come a long way since smoke enemas.
Doctors, nurses, pharmacists and others all had their own cures for the Spanish flu. But some of these may have made things worse.
Snake oil, rich in omega-3 fatty acids, was a go-to medicine for many ailments.
The COVID pandemic is giving drug companies an opportunity to reset their image. So how did they get so big and their credibility sink so low?
A woman’s right to use fillers and have plastic surgery was a topic of discussion on the show after a male contestant alluded that he found women who used such enhancements ‘fake’.
Few trans kids in the early 20th century had access to information about trans life. That they still faced down the judgment of parents and doctors is a testament to the truth of their dysphoria.
Anzac soldiers wrote poetry about body lice, shared treatment tips and experimented with new ways of bathing.
Every time you pop an aspirin, thank the German chemist Hoffmann and not Hippocrates.
An 11th-century Persian philosopher, physician, pharmacologist, scientist and poet had a profound influence on both European thought and the Islamic world.
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Lecturer, Pharmacology, Women's Health, School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Western Australia
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Professor Emerita, Classical Studies, The Open University
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Senior Lecturer in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, King's College London
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Melissa Sweet est un·e adhérent·e de The Conversation
Independent journalist and health writer; Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney; Founder of Croakey.org. PhD candidate, University of Canberra
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Professor of Communication and Media Studies, Director, News and Media Research Centre, University of Canberra
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Senior Lecturer, Centre for Nursing and Midwifery Research, James Cook University
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Research Fellow, University of Sydney
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Professor of Midwifery, Associate Dean Research and HDR, Midwifery Discipline Leader, Western Sydney University
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Senior Lecturer in 19th and 20th-century North American History, University of Liverpool
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Associate Professor of History, University of Wollongong
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Director, Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, Smithsonian Institution
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Professor of Philosophy of Science, Durham University
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Senior Lecturer in Australian History, Flinders University
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Affiliate, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University
