History Essays
Rebekah Burgess Abramovich
Elizabeth Fleischmann-Aschheim
William R. Albury
From changelings to extraterrestrials: depictions of autism in popular culture
Historical reflections on cause, responsibility and blame in medicine
Abigail Cline Appler
Claudius: the Caesar never meant to be emperor
Wilfred Niels Arnold
Mohammad Hossein Azizi & Farzaneh Azizi
A History of the Human Plague in Iran
Joyce Balls-Berry, Lea Dacy, and James Balls
“Heard It through the Grapevine”: The black barbershop as a source of health information
Jeremy Hugh Baron
Professor Lord Lister, William Ernest Henley, And Oscar Wilde
Sailors’ scurvy before and after James Lind – a reassessment
Emily Bethea
The US hospice movement: redressing modern medicine
Basil Brooke
A happy individual knows nothing
Stewart Cameron
Arthur Wohlmann and the Rotorua Health Spa
Felipe Fernandez del Castillo
Ninan Chacko
Paul Dakin
John Wesley: amateur physician and health crusader
Nada Darwish and Alan Weber
Muslim women healers of the medieval and early modern Ottoman Empire
George Dunea
Porphyria Variegata, a disease of kings
Jack Effron
The battle of the vivisected dog
Michael Ellman
Mark Hanna’s knees and the Panama Canal
Patrick Fiddes and Paul A. Komesaroff
An emperor unclothed: the virtuous Osler
Paul G. Firth
Morris Fishbein
Ludvig Hektoen: A biography and an appreciation,
James L. Franklin
Chicago medicine and peptic ulcer disease
Eisenhower and Crohn’s Disease
How much should we know about our leaders’ health?
Charles Raymond Gill
Bank of England Medical Officers: from Napoleonic to modern times
Denis Gill
F. Gonzalez-Crussi
Kevis Goodman
“Uncertain disease”: the science of nostalgia
Magdalena Grassman and Eva Niklinska
The Polish White Cross – birthed on American soil to support Polish soldiers abroad
Lynsey Grosfield
Collections complete: experiential centres of learning
Stanley Gutiontov
Pig man: pigs in medicine from Galen to transgenic xenotransplantation
Timo Hannu
Thomas Bartholin’s consolation on the burning of his library new
Bert Hansen
Medical history on the silver screen: Hollywood’s ten-minute films about medical heroes
Laura D. Hirshbein
Barry I Hoffbrand
Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians and their fees
Sarah Jane Irawa
Paul G. Joseph
Mahek Khwaja
Healing and hedonism: a reevaluation of Hashishian legends of crime and indulgence
Adam Komorowski and Sang Ik Song
Doctorum Ecclesiae: the medical clerics of the Diocese of Bath and Wells, England
Episteme and translation in an annotated copy of the Canon of Medicine by Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna)
Biji T. Kurien
K.N. Lai
Illness shapes the course of human events
Philip R. Liebson
The sweating sickness in Tudor England: a plague of the Renaissance
Citizen Zinsser: portrait of a Renaissance man
Kevin R. Loughlin
Joseph Warren: The forgotten founder new
Christopher Magoon
Silvia Maina
Medical photography in the nineteenth century: from portraits to clinical photography
James A. Marcum
Schola Medica Salernitana and medieval medical philosophy
Maureen Miller
Consolidation: pneumonia and other pathologies on the Bellevue Hospital Autopsy
Maria Alexandra Monteiro
Pantaleon or Pantaleimon- a most noble physician
Lisa Mullenneaux
Choose your poison: the curious case of Dr. Waite
Carlos G. Musso
Auenbrugger, Corvisart and Laennec: Three Generations that Forged the Basis of Chest Examination
Carlos G. Musso & Paula Enz
Ivan Pavlov: a pioneer researcher and fine human being
J.M.S. Pearce
The forgotten Darwin
The Lunar Society legacy
The Monros: a medical dynasty new
Einar Perman
Samuel Tissot: patient compliance in the 18th century
Doctor Moore on 18th century medicine
Colin Phoon
The origins of pediatrics as a clinical and academic specialty in the United States
Constantina Pitsillides
Susan Brunn Puett and J. David Puett
The Florentine Renaissance apothecary
Suzanne Raga
Anesthesia: culture, technology, and the rise of the surgeon
Jesús Ramírez-Bermúdez
The monarch, the musician, and the medic
Ira Rezak
Medicine and medals in 19th and 20th century France
Sarah Riedlinger, Dean Giustini, & Brenden Hursh
Part I: The impact of insulin on children with diabetes at Toronto Sick Kids in the 1920s
Part II: The impact of insulin on children with diabetes at Toronto Sick Kids in the 1920s
Ann W. Robinson
Nicolas Roberto Robles
Saint John of God and the origins of nursing
Anthony Ryan and Grace Neville
Le petit journal, clowns & children in hospital in Victorian London
Lynn Veach Sadler
The divine leaf: physick and the cause for physick
L. J. Sandlow
Oaths, codes, and charters in medicine over the ages
Anabelle S. Slingerland
The history of diabetes and insulin
Elizabeth A. J. Scott
Steve Server
Finding a “New Orientation” in Mexican Public Health: the Servicio Médico-Social
Julie Silverman
Dame Cicely Saunders and the foundation of the hospice movement
Joanna Smolenski
Armando Susmano
Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s last illness
Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe
Mithridates, “deadly poison” in history, and a classic misdiagnosis new
John J. Turner
The remarkable Baldwin IV: leper and king of Jerusalem
Katarina Villner
“And of scurvy the teeth fall out of them”
Sara Vogt
Diagnosing defectives: disability, gender and eugenics in the United States, 1910-1924
Daniel Vuillermin & Richard de Grijs
“Marvailous Cures”: sympathetic medicine connecting Europe and China
William H. Wehrmacher
Illuminating the third millennium with flashes of experience from the 20th century
George M. Weisz and Andrzej Grzybowski
Ludwik Fleck, physician in Lwow Ghetto
Isobel P. Williams
Captain Scott’s brave and loyal assistant: Petty Officer Edgar Evans
Philip K. Wilson
Weighing medical evidence on a historical scale
Frank A. Wollheim
Dr. Wedekind’s son: a Frank story
Ping Yu & Chi Lu
