Gonaver discusses the Eastern Lunatic Asylum in Virginia, and the roles that race, the institution of slavery, and slave labor played in the development of psychiatric diagnosis and care through the nineteenth century and beyond...

Both colonies and insane asylums are well known institutions of power. But what of asylums in Europe’s early 20th-century colonial empires?

What do university presses do, and how do they do it?

The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...

Dalrymple recounts each week’s new edition of the Journal with an eye toward analytical errors and a culture of political correctness in regard to the handling of medical and public health issues...

Behind every landmark drug is a story...

Do we have to grow old? Maybe not. David Sinclair explains...

Jaffary tracks how medical ideas, practices, and policies surrounding reproduction changed between the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries in Mexico...

Not a lot of authors go from spending their early twenties homeless and addicted to cocaine to becoming one of the world’s leading researchers on the neuroscience of addiction...

On a spring day in 2015, Dr. Travis Rieder’s life changed. A motorcycle accident, a shattered foot...

Environmental racism is visible not only as cancer clusters or the location of grocery stores...

Lavi and his colleagues have produced a groundbreaking work that offers a novel understanding of Israeli bioethics...

Are we in the midst of a psychedelic renaissance?

In 1978, doctors in Denver, Colorado observed several healthy children who suddenly and mysteriously developed a serious, life-threatening illness with no visible source...

Otovo explores the intersecting histories of race, gender, and class in modern Brazil...

Personalized healthcare―or what the award-winning author Donna Dickenson calls "Me Medicine"―is radically transforming our longstanding "one-size-fits-all" model...

Heggie talks about the history of biomedical research in extreme environments...

How do women -- especially poor and low-income women with histories of childhood sexual trauma and drug addiction -- respond to and deal with an HIV/AIDS diagnosis?

Philosophy of medicine itself has evolved in response to developments in the philosophy of science, especially with regard to epistemology, positioning it to make contributions that are medically useful...

Katie Batza demonstrates in this path-breaking book, there was already a well-developed network of gay-health clinics in American cities when the epidemic struck, and these clinics served as the first responders to the disease...

Could cancer be a contagious disease? Although this possibility might seem surprising to many of us, it has a long history...

Ramirez explores how laypeople impacted the new medical techniques and technologies implemented by the imperial state in the final decades of Spanish rule in colonial Mexico...

Dr. Pauline Chen shares her experiences as a medical student and transplant surgeon and how they’ve shaped the way she practices medicine.

Milanich explains how fatherhood, long believed to be impossible to know with certainty, became a biological “fact” that could be ascertained with scientific testing...

Why did Ebola, a virus so deadly that it killed or immobilized its victims within days, have time to become a full-blown epidemic?