The Gym Tonic aerobics programme heralded the advent of a new politics of the female body
The naturalness of breast feeding has been subordinated to a political idea of the Nation asserted in an explicit hierarchisation of class and race.
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In 19th century Belgium, post-mortem caesarean section turned into a politicized debate.
In 1852 the criminalisation of abortion is reaffirmed after the Academy of Medicine arrived at a resolution regarding therapeutic abortion.
From the outset, the measurement of intelligence was as much a scientific as an eminently political endeavour.
Eclipsed by the rise of antibiotics after the Second World War, can bacteria-eating viruses discovered at the beginning of the 20th century be therapeutic tools while resistance to antibiotic therapy emerges?
The term psychedelic was coined to refer to psychotic substances explored for use in psychiatry, but which remain under strict control
A body enhancing aesthetic practice, tattooing pertained, in the 19th century, to the world of crime and social deviance.
Does the Covid-19 health crisis mark the advent of telemedicine in our societies?
The truth serum is not just a fantasy, the stuff of science-fiction, it is also a political and medical instrument.Screenshot from Franju, La Tête contre les murs. The truth serum is not just a fantasy...
Around 1900, a vegetarian movement was organized in France to resolve the social question.
Can an Eastern spiritual practice become a Western health practice without betraying itself?
