Why ridding medicine of its ‘white dude’ legacy is a bad idea
A few weeks ago, a rigorous debate erupted on social media about the alleged need to remove the names of ‘dead white dudes’ from anatomy…
Tag: Medical History
Laxatives, laudanum and lancing: What did Aussie GPs do back in 1875?
Dr Brad Bitossi takes us back to a time when cocaine cocktails were rife - but we can still learn from general practice back then, historian says…
History: The agony and the ecstasy – why psychiatrists used to give couples MDMA
Is your marriage driving you to distraction? How about to drugs?
History: The deadly reason why public libraries used to be in everyone’s bad books
TB or not TB? That is the question.
History: These murderers sold their victims to medical science – and made a killing
Making a Murderer has nothing on this story.
History: Back when being buried alive was a legitimate fear
'Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated', greatly...
Medical history: Whose STI is it anyway?
It seems no one wanted to take credit for this one.
History: 5 fast facts about Florence Nightingale
The (lesser-known) low-down on the Lady with the Lamp.
