Slow is the historical norm. Today, convalescent care is often associated with 19th-century European tuberculosis sanatoria immortalized in novels like Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain.

A cornerstone of 19th century welfare reform, the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, had a devastating impact on child health and ...

Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time,” writes ...

ED YONG: So in the late 19th century, public health was a much more dispersed field. It had scientists, sure, but also a lot of activists, civil servants, a lot of public figures.