medical schools

My mother was a beloved doctor. She is also a reminder, to me, of every Black doctor who is not here with us but should be.

Medical schools in the antebellum U.S. were critical in the formation of a medical community that shared ideas about racial science.

The fact that most doctors like me don't know how to perform abortions is one of the greatest scandals of contemporary medicine in the US.

On the Black doctors who received their medical degrees and a new sort of freedom in Europe.

Whose body was harvested to create a spectacular anatomical specimen, and did that person know they would be on display more than a century later?

The study of medicine is rife with racist assumptions and experiments that still shape health outcomes today.

They offer jaw-dropping examples of the sexism and racism that shaped professional cultures.

Decisions about medical training and licensing in the 19th and early 20th century are still having an impact today.

In a century-long tradition, students at the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania came together in solidarity to combat illness among their members.

How a bloody gun duel between two doctors in Transylvania sparked a frenzy of outrage—and helped create the American Medical Association.

A new biography of the pioneering doctors shows why “first” can be a tricky designation.

Reflections on the long career of race science at Mr. Jefferson's university.

In the 19th Century, homeopathy was popular because of its use of small doses, its emphasis on the curative power of nature, and its holistic treatment of the body.

In the 1780s, medical schools used cadavers stolen from the cemeteries of slaves.

The Smithsonian’s human brains collection was led by Ales Hrdlicka, a museum curator in the 1900s who believed that White people were superior.

The surgeons’ observations survive thanks to a remarkable document: an eleven-page published report presented to the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.

When professor Norman E. Himes published The Medical History of Contraception in 1936, he had made a tactical move, to legalize birth control.

And the "gentleman" doctors who made them.

Osteopathy was founded by a 19th-century healer who believed the body was a self-healing machine.

The Mourning Woman emerged during a revival of classical symbolism in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century gravestone iconography.