Science & Medicine

Recently Australia celebrated Science Week when all around the nation people celebrated the discipline's wondrous achievements. As usual, there was a particular focus on science in schools with the theme this...

Now that the devastatingly powerful Hurricane Harvey has made landfall, Texas is struggling to pick up the pieces, as the country at large wonders what we can learn from this disaster. (Don't forget to donate...

This essay originally appeared on Nursing Clio. When Weight Watchers first launched an online program “customized just for guys” in 2007, one of their advertisements proclaimed, “Real men don’t...

Before I begin, what do I mean by “ethic”? Ethics are, in the end, a study of moral justification of our actions (or inaction). Most simply put, ethics are a set of moral judgments that can influence and...

This story originally appeared on NursingClio, a collaborative blog project that ties historical scholarship to present-day issues related to gender and medicine. Sixteen minutes into the second episode...

Over the last decade, science has evolved in leaps and bounds, changing the way humans work, think, interact, and travel, thanks to many recent advances and innovations, including computers, smartphones, and...

There are two opioid crises in the world today. One is the epidemic of abuse and misuse, present in many countries but rising at an alarming rate in the United States. The other crisis is older and affects...