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...

Temperaments and Humours – Nutritional Medicine

During the crusades in the 12th century, an envoy arrived at the court of a local ruler in Syria and requested that a physician be sent to a Crusad...

More is (Sometimes) Less

We often hear the claim that modern science already knows almost everything there is to know about the world. As scientific fields become increasi...

A Brief Reflection on the “Soul” in the Writings of Maimonides

While the 19th-century figure Sigmund Freud is widely regarded as the father of psychology as a formal science, the study of the human mind—and its...