Doctor bleeding a patient

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Surgical history: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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From bone setting in ancient Egypt to organ transplants: a brief history of surgery

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American psychiatry: a tortured history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Q&AWhat are the roots of dentistry?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Circulation of the blood, 1628. English physician William Harvey (1578-1657) was the first to correctly describe the mechanism whereby blood is circulated in the body. Diagram showing the existence of valves in veins. From Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus, by William Harvey. (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)

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A medical renaissance?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A medieval illustration showing a doctor bleeding a patient

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A history of medicine14 surprising facts

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Hidden livesVictorian fasting girls

Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert and Edward Jenner

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Ilustration showing thorned brambles growing up the nervous system of a pink torso, the brambles at the bottom of the piece are growing in the shape of a uterus, and there are blackberries where the ovaries should be. A blue, gloved hand is coming in from the left to pluck at the ovary blackberry, and another gloved hand coming in from the right is using gardening secateurs to cut one of the branches. A metaphor for endometriosis, and in a broader sense, women's medical neglect and oppression

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The gender pain gap: perceptions of women's health through history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration showing woman receiving a caesarean section

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Q&AWhat are the origins of the caesarean section?

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Q&AWhich king thought he was made of glass

Reverend Spencer Parsons, head of the Chicago branch of the Clergy Consultation Service (CCS), an interfaith group dedicated to helping women obtain abortions before 'Roe v Wade'

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The American clergy who helped women get abortions before Roe v Wade. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A British poster dated 1917 designed by Bert Thomas. (Photo by Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy Stock Photo)

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A brief history of smoking

Jesus is shown cleansing ten lepers in a scene from the Gospel According to Luke, illustrated in an 11th-century manuscript

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LeprosyHow has the disease been perceived and treated through history?

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

A woodcut of the brain from Andreas Vesalius’s groundbreaking 1543 treatise On the Fabric of the Human Body

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The Elizabethans' complex relationship with mental wellbeing. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Plastic surgery: transformed by WW1. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The birth of insulin: a scientific drama. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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Why we should remember…Target Zero Day. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Episode 6How 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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Episode 5Death, sin & spirituality. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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The Anatomy of Melancholy: how Robert Burton helped shape our understanding of the mind. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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

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

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

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

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Episode 1Introduction. 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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