Common sense is a historical category - and none of our questions around sex and gender are really new
Category: doctors
Let’s talk about (assisted) dying
There’s something going on here about how we don’t want to take full responsibility for our decisions; we don’t want to think through the issues properly, instead bringing in some text from the past as if it is entirely without its own historical context.
Greek and Roman Medicine: academic friendship
Academic friendship and collaboration...
The history of cancer: Part 2
The story of Queen Atossa and her breast - and what it doesn't tell us.
Filthy Philaenis: the first sex manual?
This is one of those stories about the classical world which starts with assumptions, and ends with them being shaken up as the result of one simple discovery.
Mistaking histories 