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The Making of Modern Medicine

Narrative history series exploring over 2,000 years of western medicine, with medical historian Andrew Cunningham

Radio 4,30 episodes

Episodes

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Transplant
In 1967, Christiaan Barnard performed the first heart transplant operation.
15 mins16 Mar 2007
The Crippler
Andrew traces the impact of the great polio epidemics and the ethical dilemmas they posed.
15 mins15 Mar 2007
Free at the Point of Need
The National Health Service was set up in 1948 to provide free healthcare for everyone.
15 mins14 Mar 2007
It Looks Like a Miracle
The first antibiotic, penicillin, appeared to be a miracle medicine.
15 mins13 Mar 2007
You Are What You Eat
How medics discovered that the absence of a vitamin could be the cause of a disease.
15 mins12 Mar 2007
Near Pavilions
The influence of Florence Nightingale and the sanitarians.
15 mins09 Mar 2007
Flinging the Tropics Open to Civilisation
What role did European medicine play in spreading European culture across the Empire?
15 mins08 Mar 2007
The Ministry of Healing
Needing to consult laboratory workers was seen as a threat to physicians' authority.
15 mins07 Mar 2007
Transforming Plague
When bubonic plague broke out in Hong Kong in 1894, European rivalry continued.
15 mins06 Mar 2007
Culturing the Germ Theory
How a country doctor from Prussia traced the life cycle of an anthrax bacteria cell.
15 mins05 Mar 2007
Stopping the Rot
History series exploring over 2,000 years of western medicine. 20: Stopping the Rot:.
15 mins02 Mar 2007
The Disease is its Own Preventative
The story of Louis Pasteur's development of the anti-rabies vaccine in 1885.
15 mins01 Mar 2007
A Yankee Dodge
Andrew looks back to the origins of pain relief and how chloroform.
15 mins28 Feb 2007
Dark Side of Obstetrics
Andrew discusses the work of Ignaz Semmelweis in Vienna.
15 mins27 Feb 2007
Science Has No Sex
A series exploring over 2,000 years of western medicine, presented by Andrew Cunningham.
15 mins26 Feb 2007
Sisters of Charity
How the nursing profession was transformed thanks to an enterprising Florence Nightingale.
15 mins23 Feb 2007
Changing Disease Identity
A side effect of progress in medical thinking is that diseases had identities changed.
15 mins22 Feb 2007
A Long and Ghastly Kitchen
Napoleonic France witnessed Dr Magendie's experiments on live animals.
15 mins21 Feb 2007
Making Signs
Systematic post mortems revolutionised the study of disease.
15 mins20 Feb 2007
Little Reading, Much Seeing and Much Doing
The French Revolution ushered in new ambition and a new scientific clinical approach.
15 mins19 Feb 2007
Anatomy and the Invisible Hand
How did this period come to be known as 'the perfection of anatomy'?
15 mins16 Feb 2007
The Coming of the GP
The clash between old guard physicians and a new breed of general practitioners.
15 mins15 Feb 2007
Learning from the Illiterate
Smallpox was taking between 10-15 per cent of all lives in Europe.
15 mins14 Feb 2007
Fever
In the 17th Century, fevers were the main concern of physicians.
15 mins13 Feb 2007
The Early Transfusion Experiments
It wasn't until 1660 that anyone thought of putting blood back into patients.
15 mins12 Feb 2007
The Anatomical Renaissance
In the 16th century, surgery had been perfected to allow artificial noses, ears and lips.
15 mins09 Feb 2007
Paracelsus and the People's Medicine
The 16th century witnessed the birth of a new kind of natural philosophy and medicine.
15 mins08 Feb 2007
The First Sexual Epidemic
A mysterious new disease broke out among the French army in 1492.
15 mins07 Feb 2007
God's House, the Hospital
The hospital is one of the main innovations made in Christian Medieval times.
15 mins06 Feb 2007
Hot, Cold, Wet and Dry
Origins of religious and western-learned medicine can be traced to Hippocrates and Galen.
15 mins05 Feb 2007

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