The Day the Universe Changed — Season 1, Episode 7: What the Doctor Ordered: Impacts of New Medical Knowledge
Documentary • 45 min • 1 season, 10 episodes • ★ 8.8/10
Episode synopsis
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.
About The Day the Universe Changed
Documentary series about the effect of advances in science and technology on western society in its philosophical aspects.
More episodes from Season 1
- E1The Way We Are: It Started with the Greeks
- E2In the Light of the Above: Medieval Conflict: Faith and Reason
- E3Point of View: Scientific Imagination in the Renaissance
- E4A Matter of Fact: Printing Transforms Knowledge
- E5Infinitely Reasonable: Science Revises the Heavens
- E6Credit Where It's Due: The Factory and Marketplace Revolution
- E8Fit to Rule: Darwin's Revolution
- E9Making Waves: The New Physics: Newton Revised
- E10Worlds Without End: Changing Knowledge, Changing Reality