As the Victorian era began in 1837, the world of medicine was still in a relatively dangerous state; hospitals were as likely to speed up your ailment as cure you, surgery was done without reliable ...

Access these resources as a member - it's free! Author Janice Nimura, The Doctors Blackwell, and journalist Olivia Campbell, Women in White Coats, discussed their respective books on the history of ...

To read The Butchering Art, you should have a stronger stomach than mine. The book makes no bones (pun unfortunately intended) about what you'll find inside — it's subtitled Joseph Lister's Quest to ...

Books from the Victorian era, such as cloth-bound hardcovers, Christmas annuals, and serialized novels can be found at the exhibition. The curator of the exhibit, Rebecca Baumann, said before the 19th ...

correctionA photo caption in an earlier version of this article gave incorrect information about Barbara Heritage's job. She is the director of collections, exhibitions and scholarly initiatives at ...

In April, the National Library of France removed four 19th century books, all published in Great Britain, from its shelves because the covers were likely laced with arsenic. The books have been placed ...

Now, it's not news that some people consider books to be dangerous. They can mean that in a negative way, as when communities try to contain books, get them off the library shelves. They can mean that ...