Modern day obsessions with healthy eating and fat-free foods for fitness is not new; it goes back to the ancient Greeks and ...

I’ve been thinking a lot about peace lately. We live in a time of wars and rumors of wars, civil disturbances, and fractured ...

As sports physicians, we follow the Hippocratic Oath and support the philosophy: no borders, no colour, no politics, no constraints—exercise for fun with the objective of improving physical and mental ...

The “four tempers” in AppleTV+’s hit show, ‘Severance,’ were inspired by the four temperaments, an ancient Greek philosophy credited to the “father of (Western) medicine,” Hippocrates. Here’s an ...

Is the Next JD Vance Sitting in Your Philosophy Seminar? Ask them, and they might insist that theirs is not so much a political project as is a philosophical one. But this same insistence on deep ...

Galen, the pioneering Greek physician who influenced Western medicine through the 1700s. Portrait by Pierre-Roch Vigneron. Credit: Public Domain Galen of Pergamon was the most influential ancient ...

Who are the top ancient Greek philosophers, and what are their contributions to philosophy and modern life? Read on to discover who they are and what they did.

In a new book, Policing Pregnant Bodies, author Kathleen Crowther grapples with how very old ideas – some of them misogynistic – shape how we think about pregnancy and abortion today.

In medicine, Hippocrates of Kos (c. 460-370 BCE) is well-known because of the oath ascribed to him that physicians take before formally being recognized as licensed physicians. I still remember going ...