Suman Seth reveals how histories of medicine, empire, race and slavery intertwined in the eighteenth-century British Empire.

A tremendous amount of research has been performed looking at the relationship between personality and disease. Research on this topic has been spread throughou

In 1748, as yellow fever raged in Charleston, South Carolina, doctor John Lining remarked, "There is something very singular in the constitution of the Negroes,

When we or our loved ones fall ill, our world is thrown into disarray, our routines are interrupted, our beliefs shaken. David Morris offers an unconventional,