The Day the Universe Changed

The Day the Universe Changed

What the Doctor Ordered: Impacts of New Medical Knowledge (1x7)


: 30, 1985

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.

  • : 1985
  • : 10
  • : 5
  • BBC