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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.