History of Medicine

Signs from Within: Listening to Our Body

Instead of asking ourselves why it hurts, we ignore or suppress it, not because we chose to but because that is how we were taught Our body is a c...

Pain: Between the Body’s Signal and Our Urge to Silence It

Pain is an inner, individual phenomenon, and also a term we use to describe a variety of states. This makes its definition elusive.(1) In Hebrew di...