Bibliograph

Doctors, the history of scientific medicine revealed through biography, Sherwin B. Nuland ; Teaching Company

Type

Label

Doctors, the history of scientific medicine revealed through biography, Sherwin B. Nuland ; Teaching Company

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

Doctors

Oclc number

61233044

Responsibility statement

Sherwin B. Nuland ; Teaching Company

Runtime

360

Series statement

The great courses

Sub title

the history of scientific medicine revealed through biography

Summary

Twelve lectures (30 min. each) that discuss the history of the development of Western scientific medicine, set against character studies of twelve of the greatest physicians since classical times

Table Of Contents

disc 1. 1. Hippocrates and the origins of Western medicine ; 2. The paradox of Galen ; 3. Vesalius and the Renaissance of medicine ; 4. Harvey, discoverer of the circulation ; 5. Morgagni and the anatomy of disease ; 6. Hunter, the surgeon as scientist -- disc 2. 7. Laennec and the invention of the stethoscope ; 8. Morton and the origins of anesthesia ; 9. Virchow and the cellular origins of disease ; 10. Lister and the germ theory ; 11. Halsted and the American medical education ; 12. Taussig and the development of cardiac surgery

Target audience

specialized

Technique

live action

Classification