One halcyon spring day in 1903, the 69-year-old anatomist and naturalist Dr. James Bell Pettigrew sat at the top of a sloping ...

Dissecting cadavers is a mainstay of medical education, but it relies on donors and poses ethical and other challenges. Roshni Shastri and Crispin Wiles argue that modern teaching has moved on, but ...

In the first half of the course, students learned concepts like metabolic rate, or the amount of energy the body needs to ...

Weston is an English graduate who switched to medicine. Her first book, Direct Red, a memoir about her life as a surgeon, was ...