What if a physician from, say, the late Roman Empire were transported to the 21st century and asked to treat patients? Historian Noga Arikha performs this thought experiment in her new book, “Passions ...

One of the striking features of the coronavirus pandemic has been the emergence of some highly questionable “cures”, which have spread rapidly via social media. With the absence of any proven ...

IN the past twenty-five hundred years the number of reviews, commentaries, critiques and translations of the Hippocratic writings is astounding. The effect of these writings in freeing medicine from ...

Theory guides teaching, patient care, and research. Most are unaware of psychiatry’s and medicine’s guiding theory. Their present reductionistic theory has been discarded by all other sciences.

Psycom: Jonathan Sadowsky, associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the School of Medicine and the Theodore J. Castele Professor of Medical History, addressed the early history of ...