Medicine and health

Dr DA Henderson examines children’s smallpox vaccination scars in Ethiopia

Why we should remember… Target Zero Day

Pro-choice and pro-life advocates outside the Supreme Court in the 1970s, following the Roe v Wade decision. (Photo by Diana Walker//The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Images)

A brief history of US abortion law, before and after Roe v Wade

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Episode 6 How the pandemic transformed societies . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Catherine the Great: inoculation pioneer . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Domenico Fetti painting illustrating a melancholic woman in the early 17th century

The Anatomy of Melancholy: how Robert Burton helped shape our understanding of the mind

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Episode 4 Medieval medical thinking . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 3 Living through the plague . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 2 Origins & spread . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A young woman sat in front of a mirror applies lipstick, 1967

The price of beauty: the dangerous cosmetics used until the 20th century

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The history of beauty: everything you wanted to know

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Episode 1 Introduction . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A stone statue of a woman's torso with a drop of blood over the abdomen, representing women's bodies and menstruation

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A history of menstruation

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Gardens and the scientific revolution

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Periods, fertility & childbirth: a pre-modern history