What if a physician from, say, the late Roman Empire were transported to the 21st century and asked to treat patients? Historian Noga Arikha performs this thought experiment in her new book, “Passions ...

Medieval physicians in Catholic Europe were discouraged from challenging these ideas because the ancient Greeks’ medical theories fitted in with the teachings of the Bible. Learn more about how ...

Beginning with Hippocrates and advanced by Galen five centuries later, it was believed that a healthy body was the result of a perfect balance among four humors and that illness was the result of ...

One of the striking features of the coronavirus pandemic has been the emergence of some highly questionable “cures”, which have spread rapidly via social media. With the absence of any proven ...