Doctors: The History of Scientific Medicine Revealed Through Biography

In today's era of modern Western medicine, organ transplants are routine, and daily headlines about the mysteries of DNA and the human genome promise that the secrets of life itself are tantalizingly within our reach. Yet to reach this point took thousands of years. How was medical science able to make this extraordinary journey? What major discoveries made it possible? Who were the fascinating individuals responsible for those discoveries, and what qualities prepared each of them for their unique roles in medical history? The scope of medical history reveals a compelling story. In this course, Dr. Sherwin Nuland draws on the lives of 12 of medicine's greatest contributors to tell the human story behind the development of Western scientific medicine. (Asian medicine is not considered in this course; nor are those systems categorized as alternative medicine.)

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  • TheTVDB.com Series ID 364604
  • Status Ended
  • First Aired January 1, 2005
  • Recent January 1, 2005
  • Network The Great Courses
  • Average Runtime 30 minutes
  • Genres Documentary
  • Original Country United States of America
  • Original Language English
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