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Programme includes dramatic extracts from 'Microbes and Men' produced by Peter Goodchild. Using these extracts, Janet Richards shows how a scientific theory is arrived at by the accumulation of a l...arge number of factors, some of which are discarded, others used. In the case illustrated, Semmelweis and the discovery of the cause of Puerperal Fever, intuition and chance play an important part and these are acknowledged to be important elements in scientific methodology.
Programme includes dramatic extracts from 'Microbes and Men' produced by Peter Goodchild. Using these extracts, Janet Richards shows how a scientific theory is arrived at by the accumulation of a l...arge number of factors, some of which are discarded, others used. In the case illustrated, Semmelweis and the discovery of the cause of Puerperal Fever, intuition and chance play an important part and these are acknowledged to be important elements in scientific methodology.
| Module code and title: | A313, Philosophical problems |
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| Item code: | A313; 04 |
| First transmission date: | 20-06-1981 |
| Published: | 1981 |
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| Duration: | 00:25:00 |
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| Producer: | Peter Walton |
| Contributors: | John Gill; Robert Lang; Leonard Maguire; Janet Radcliffe-Richards; Anna Wing |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Miasma; Puerperal fever |
| Subject terms: | Childbirth; Midwifery |
| Master spool number: | 6HT/73746 |
| Production number: | FOUA086B |
| Videofinder number: | 1288 |
| Available to public: | no |
