Keyword search: Dr Justina Wilson – the ‘forgotten’ first female Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Read more Last Orders Prohibition was enacted into law in Canada, Norway, Finland and the United States. Despite strong lobbying, no similar legislation was passed in Britain. A series of mostly unsuccessful laws were passed in Britain in the late 1800s with titles like the ‘Habitual Drunkards Act’ and the ‘Inebriates Act’. Read more Queer Ecology Queer ecology is an area of study that focuses on the ways that the ecological world is queer. The study affirms that queerness is a part of the natural world, and that plants and animals don’t always conform to societal norms and binaries. Read more One History, One Medicine Caring for animals, treating them and curing them, has been essential to human survival for thousands of years. Human reliance on animals for food, load-bearing work and transportation meant that animal wellbeing has always been key to human wellbeing. Read more Origins of Species Animals were studied in the ancient world, most famously by Aristotle who classified fauna according to scala naturae – the idea that the natural world could be arranged on a scale like the rungs of the ladder, each organism in its rightful place according to its degree of ‘perfection’. Read more Myths and Monsters Animals appear everywhere in human societies, both in a physical sense and as cultural metaphors and myths. When the first animals were domesticated, they stopped being just the predators... Read more Untold LGBTQ+ Histories in Medicine and Dr Sophia Jex-Blake Who Was Sophia Jex-Blake? Dr Sophia Jex-Blake (1840 – 1912) was a trailblazer. She fought hard for women’s rights and was a pioneer of social change from within the... Read more Slavery, Medicine, and Philanthropy in Scotland The Edinburgh Medical School The Edinburgh Medical School was founded in 1726 by an act of the Town Council. It stood unrivalled as the most vibrant medical faculty in... Read more In Loving Memory: Widowhood The loss of a wife rarely altered a man’s status, but the loss of a husband changed a woman’s life forever. Becoming a widow brought risks, but there was... Read more Rest in Peace: Mourning Rituals Mourning is the outward display of grief. It can make the personal, societal. It is loss shared. For much of history the formal rituals surrounding mourning were widely understood.... Read more Morbid Anatomy: What Happened to the Body The rituals that followed dying at home made death a community event up to the 1900s. Friends and family gathered to share stories and assist in the preparation of... Read more Diagnosing Death Death is universal. But despite this, the way we view our own deaths, the way we prepare for, think about and respond to death, varies significantly. In medieval times,... Read more Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Next page
