A look at the area of the body where surgery has been most frightening - the brain. Just over 100 years ago, cutting into the brain was a terrifying prospect for both patient and surgeon. They could ...

Democratic, divine and heroic: the history and historiography of surgery / Christopher Lawrence -- Seventeenth-century English surgery: the casebook of Joseph Binns / Lucinda McCray Beier -- Surgery ...

A mummified body attributed to the Scythian culture of the Eurasian steppes has drawn renewed scholarly attention for what researchers describe as evidence of jaw surgery and an early form of dental ...

From the pioneering work of Galen on Roman gladiators to the latest advances in plastic surgery, this five-part series illustrates the evolution of surgical techniques—a story as much of mishaps and ...