June 18, 1815. Napoleon’s attempt to rebuild his empire, after escaping exile on the island of Elba and regaining control of France, came to an abrupt and disastrous end near a place called Mont Saint ...

When I was young, one of my favourite TV shows was M*A*S*H. Set in a US mobile hospital during the Korean War, the army doctors and nurses approached their work with wacky black humour. As the ...

VATICAN CITY, July 16, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Humanity 2.0, focused on identifying and removing the most significant impediments to human flourishing in collaboration with the Holy See (Vatican), is ...

Dominique Jean Larrey, the chief surgeon for Napoleon’s army, is regarded as the father of modern military surgery. His was a remarkable career. Observing how many injured soldiers lay on the ...

Richardson's lively, well-researched book is a study of the man rather than the medicine, but there is lots of gory detail about the battlefield surgery Larrey did so much to advance. Larrey: Surgeon ...

Fr. Philip Larrey, PhD, is a Catholic priest who holds the Chair of Logic and Epistemology at the Pontifical Lateran University in the Vatican and is the Dean of the Philosophy Department. His ...

For many observers and followers of the Catholic Church and its stance on artificial intelligence, Fr. Philip Larrey—about to start his second year on the Boston College faculty—is the guru. Fr.