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This Radio 4 series covers over 2000 years of medical history and draws on a vast range of original sources from diaries, medical journals and stage play satires to shed light on the experiences of... physicians, surgeons, nurses and patients. Whether you're interested in how contemporaries thought about and understood disease in their own time, what it was like to experience illness, suffer pain and seek a cure in earlier times, the emergence of women in medicine, the advent of the stethoscope, or the birth of antibiotic treatment, this series offers an entertaining and fascinating insight into the background to these and a host of other medical issues.
This Radio 4 series covers over 2000 years of medical history and draws on a vast range of original sources from diaries, medical journals and stage play satires to shed light on the experiences of... physicians, surgeons, nurses and patients. Whether you're interested in how contemporaries thought about and understood disease in their own time, what it was like to experience illness, suffer pain and seek a cure in earlier times, the emergence of women in medicine, the advent of the stethoscope, or the birth of antibiotic treatment, this series offers an entertaining and fascinating insight into the background to these and a host of other medical issues.
| Series: | The making of modern medicine |
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| First transmission date: | 2007-03-13 |
| Original broadcast channel: | BBC Radio 3 |
| Published: | 2007 |
| Rights Statement: | Rights owned or controlled by The Open University |
| Restrictions on use: | This material can be used in accordance with The Open University conditions of use. A link to the conditions can be found at the bottom of all OU Digital Archive web pages. |
| Duration: | 00:13:38 |
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| Producer: | Andrew Cunningham |
| Writer: | Andrew Cunningham |
| Contributor: | Andrew Cunningham |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Subject terms: | Diseases and history; Medicine--History; Patients; Penicillin; Fleming, Alexander,--1881-1955; Florey, Howard,--Baron Florey,--1898-1968 |
| Production number: | AUDA206B |
| Available to public: | no |
