The received medical wisdom of the 19th century was that assertive, ambitious women were unnatural, and therefore sick.

You wouldn’t think to find one of the world’s most innovative asylums in Montrose, Scotland. Montrose is a small town between the cities of Aberdeen and Dundee. It became a significant trading center ...

Steve Roberts isn’t sure he believes in ghosts. But without them, he can’t really explain what happened several months ago at Pennsylvania’s infamous Pennhurst Asylum. In May, he joined a group of ...

“When I try to sleep, war memories come to my mind and my body starts shaking,” a 62-year-old man told Human Rights Watch researchers eight years after surviving a suicide bombing in Kabul in 2011.