Unmanned Audio, Anger Incarnate, Descent of Man and Medieval Torture rocked the event room of the All Vets Center Saturday.

Czech transgender people will no longer be required to undergo a surgery but will need to be diagnosed as transsexual by ...

A new exhibition and series of events aims to help visitors understand what life was like during the medieval period.

The medieval fortress town of Monemvasia, Greece. The top of the rock is currently accessible only via a winding, 240-yard stone path — a dizzying and exhausting climb. Liubov Isaeva/Getty Images ...

However, very few medical practitioners were university trained and most people relied on monks or friars, or barber-surgeons, apothecaries and herbalists, as well as home-based treatments. So ...

In the Middle Ages, the barber-surgeon became the poor-man’s go to doctor. Someone to deal with the more mundane and dirty jobs. Jobs like bloodletting, pulling out teeth, dealing with minor ...

This talk explores how medieval writers thought through the dangerous separability of materia medica from the expertise it seemingly signified, focusing particularly on the association — and rupture — ...

VANNES, France — A retired surgeon accused of raping and sexually assaulting 299 people admitted in court that he committed “hideous” acts, as France’s largest ever child sexual abuse case ...

Surgeons, gunpowder and the printing press Early modern surgeons passionately debated where and how to cut the body to remove fingers, toes, arms and legs in ways medieval surgeons hadn’t. This was ...