In the 19th century, Europe and the United States saw a "mania for operating."

Some people born in able bodies feel as if they were meant to have disabilities. How should the medical community be responding?

Many doctors embraced anesthesia, but critics in the medical community protested its use, giving rise to what's known as the “ether controversy.”

Joseph Lister's landmark articles on antiseptic surgery in the Lancet were published 150 years ago. The revolution was not immediate.

Director Steven Soderbergh’s historical drama series, The Knick, brings viewers inside a New York City hospital’s operating room ...

The first human head transplant is scheduled for 2017. But the possibility of transplants has transfixed scientists for most of the last century.