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 ...

Before modern painkillers, medieval people dealt with pain through religion, humoral theory, bloodletting, leeches, herbal drugs, alcohol, and risky surgical experiments. The Church taught that ...

In his seminal contribution to clonal selection theory, Australian Nobel laureate Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet describes the trajectory of a scientific career in terms that could be applied to the ...