Stories
- Article
Bleeding healthy
For thousands of years, and in many different cultures, people have practised bloodletting for health and medical reasons. Julia Nurse explains where and when bleeding was used, how it was done, and why.
- Article
Confession as therapy in the Middle Ages
The line between confession and counselling has been blurred for centuries.
- In pictures
Sexy (medieval) times
Penis badges, the mysterious Office of the Night, and sneezing as a form of contraception – enter the surprising world of medieval sex. It wasn’t cold baths and self-denial for everyone, as Katherine Harvey explains.
- Article
The cook who became a pariah
New York, 1907. Mary Mallon spreads infection, unaware that her name will one day become synonymous with typhoid.
Catalogue
- Books
Healthy aging in sociocultural context / edited by Andrew E. Scharlach and Kazumi Hoshino.
Date: 2013- Books
Healthy aging / editor, Ping-Chung Leung.
Date: [2011], ©2011- Books
Health and aging in the world's largest democracy / C. Shanthi Johnson, editor.
Date: [2010], ©2010- Books
The healthy aging brain : sustaining attachment, attaining wisdom / Louis Cozolino.
Cozolino, Louis J.Date: [2008], ©2008- Books
Chronic medical disease and cognitive aging : toward a healthy body and brain / edited by Kristine Yaffe, MD.
Date: [2013], ©2013