This text, written by members of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine and first published in 1995, is designed to cover the history of western medicine from classical antiquity to 1800.

Western medicine changed its mind about meditation in 2007. Up until then, meditation was on the blacklist as one of the ...

Global Public Health, Vol. 17, Issue. 10, p. 2361. This book delves into the social history of medicine and reflects on the complexity of social interaction between indigenous and western medicine in ...

Parents who did not believe in “Western medicine” have been cleared of killing their sick one-year-old son after failing to take him to see a doctor. Craig Herdman, 46, and Paula Freitas ...

Acupuncture remains a contentious subject among Western doctors, though many agree it’s effective at treating some symptoms. Photographed at the U.S. National Library of Medicine This story ...

"I grew up as a traditional woman within my community … and I always felt that if I were to ever get sick, that I would just undergo traditional medicine and not western," said Whitebean.

Lung cancer is the most prevalent and deadly cancer in the world. With the promotion of CT scanning and the public's rising ...

Dr Yu Baoqing, president of the only city-level hospital featuring integrated TCM and Western medicine in the Pudong New Area ...

While progress and innovation are often attributed to Western scientific principles, our modern understanding of the world is ...