I am the odd man out in a family of medical folk. My maternal grandfather was a physician; his daughter, my mother, was a medical technologist; my mother-in-law, a nurse. My brother is a physician; so ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about contemporary culture and the arts. Lane Fox’s work begins with a study of bodies in Homer and a striking insight: ...

Gregory Elder, a Redlands resident, is a former professor of history and humanities at Moreno Valley College and a Roman Catholic priest. This photo is from about 2017. (Courtesy Photo) In this time ...

Doctors still invoke the Hippocratic Oath, which classics scholar Robin Lane Fox refers to as “the essential ethic of Western medicine” (although, as he characteristically points out, its actual links ...

The idea that food is medicine has been around for centuries, even if there’s doubt about its origin story. (The Greek physician Hippocrates, the “father” of Western medicine, allegedly wrote, “Let ...

Professor Arturo Castiglioni, 66, of the University of Padua in Italy, is a refugee teaching at Yale. The son of a rabbi, he was born in Trieste, brought up an Austrian. After World War I, when Italy ...

Hippocrates (c. 460 – c. 370 BC), was a Greek physician who is often referred to as the "Father of Western Medicine." Along with creating the Hippocratic Oath, his wisdom and sage-like advice, such as ...

The BMJ is an international peer reviewed medical journal and a fully "online first" publication. Our publishing model–"continuous publication"– means that all articles appear on bmj.com before being ...