In 19th century Belgium, post-mortem caesarean section turned into a politicized debate.
Almost entirely overlooked throughout the 20th century, neglected by contemporary medical manuals, the clitoris has gradually returned centre stage thanks to Western feminism.
Drapotemania exemplifies the existence of psychiatric diagnoses rooted in the political stigmatisation of a social group.
The 20th century oversaw the development of emergency medicine as a new public health norm.
Did excess mortality among the Great War insane result from a political choice?
By asserting the hymen, a ubiquitous trait of female anatomy, 19th physicians reinforced the taboos affecting women's sexuality.
From the outset, the measurement of intelligence was as much a scientific as an eminently political endeavour.
In 1865 cholera spread from Mecca to the rest of the world, redirecting just-born international health policy’s priorities on Muslim pilgrimage flows.