From ancient healing practices to cutting-edge technologies, Medicine in a Historical Context, offers a comprehensive view of the field’s history. Medicine in a Historical Context Trepanning Trepanation, also known as trepanning, is one of humanity’s oldest forms of surgery and also one of its most gruesome. The Wandering Womb and Female Hysteria The condition has its roots in ancient medical […]
Medicine in a Historical Context
Physical Experiments: Human and Animal Experimentation
From groundbreaking medical advancements to controversial ethical debates, “Physical Experiments” uncovers the stories of groundbreaking discoveries and medical breakthroughs as we dive deep into the realm of human and animal experimentation. Physical Experiments: Human and Animal Experimentation Radioactive Cereals In the 1940s, the MIT and Quaker Oats tests conducted a series of experiments involving the consumption of radioactive cereals by […]