7. What the Doctor Ordered: Impacts of New Medical Knowledge

Aired Apr 30, 198545 min

Traces modern society’s recognition of the value of statistics to medical advances stemming from responses to the French Revolution and an English cholera epidemic. Identifies the origins of medicine as a science with the discovery of anesthesia, antiseptics, and bacteriology.

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