Surgery was rare and risky in the medieval period. Though medical options were limited, trans people were able to take transitioning into their own hands.
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Gunpowder warfare kicked off a new era of invasive surgery and prosthetic technology in Western medicine.
Early modern societies in Latin America and Spain saw a convergence of traditional medical knowledge and the professionalization of medicine. The resulting differences in access to care endure today.
In medieval Japan, healing might mean taking medicine, undergoing an exorcism or sidestepping harm in the first place by avoiding inauspicious days.
Your doctor’s MD emerged from the Dark Ages, where practicing rational “human medicine” was seen as an expression of faith and maintaining one’s health a religious duty.
The usefulness of a drug is typically measured by its active ingredient. But traditional Chinese medicine shows that there’s more to healing than using the right chemical.
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Associate Professor of History, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Associate Professor of History, Auburn University
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Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Director of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies Program, Bowdoin College
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Assistant Professor of History, University at Buffalo
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Lecturer in East Asian Religions, Washington University in St. Louis
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Ph.D. Candidate in English, University of Iowa