‘At its heart,’ writes Florence Williams, ‘Breasts is an environmental history of a body part ... prompting her to question the idea that breastmilk was either ‘natural’ or ‘best’ for her children.

I've long said that the antivax movement is borderline eugenicist (or at least social Darwinist) in nature. Now that a second ...

Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group ... which divided them into “natural” and “unnatural” immigrants. Then as now, separating immigrants into clean binaries may reflect ...

This is her compelling-sounding history of extinction as a scientific idea, an imperial legacy and a political choice; by which Europeans and Americans used the idea that extinction was a natural ...

In pursuit of an hourglass figure, some patients (and their plastic surgeons) are exploring a dramatic new frontier in body contouring.

“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.

He restored the natural order of things. Men ruled women, and Rome ruled the world. On both counts Cleopatra was crucial to the story. She stands among the few losers whom history remembers ...

According to a 2020 review published in Nutrients, lactation increases daily energy expenditure by about 450–500 kcal, as the body mobilises fat stores to produce breast milk. This natural process can ...

it is said to have delivered a message to American commanders despite a wound to its breast and a nearly severed leg. It’s an act of valour that earned it a spot as a taxidermy specimen at the ...