What people's health was like during medieval times What toilets and bathrooms were like in castles What people's teeth were like in medieval times What the plague was and how people tried to cure ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Restrictions on medical care for transgender youth assume that without the ability to medically transition, trans people will vanish.

Not until Victorian times would bathhouses become a little noticed but influential item in public health policies. But according to Janna Coomans, a historian at Utrecht University in the Netherlands ...

Family members care for most people with mental illness in ancient times. In general, medieval Europeans allow the mentally ill their freedom -- granted they are not dangerous. However ...

Throughout the medieval period, there were over 1,000 monasteries in England. They were built all over the country. During this period, there was no free health care provided by the government.

History, however, shows that withholding health care does not make transgender people go away. Scholarship of medieval literature and historical records reveals how transgender people transitioned ...