Professor Mark Horton tells the epic story of the world's greatest medical discovery. Edward Jenner's vaccination...
Andrew Marr presents the case for Charles Darwin as the greatest Briton, reporting from the Galapagos Islands, where Darwin first witnessed ...
Dr Chris and Dr Xand turn back the clock and look at what medicine was like in the First World War. They meet a Paralympian runner who...
Programme concentrates on looking at medicine and surgery, and looks at the rise of surgery and inventions such as X-rays, the stethos...
Schools prog on history.
The principal of the germ theory of disease is credited to Louis Pasteur. But why was it taken up and acted on, so ...
Paul Viragh presents programme on medicine and long-term change - Harvey's theory of the circulation of the blood is usually ...
Only one in four GP's in Britain is a woman. How were women excluded from medicine during the Middle Ages, & what problems did ...
With the fall of the Roman Empire came the collapse of the public health system which they had initiated. What broug...
Dr Michael Mosley explores how scientists went from finding antidotes to poisons to applying poisons as cur...
Dr Michael Mosley explores our earliest attempts to tackle infection and how scientists, chemists and doctors ...
Michael Mosley discovers what pain is and how we were able to control it with the discovery of morphine at th...
Ian Hislop presents a film about Victorian financiers known for their spectacular philanthropy, including Samuel Gurney, George Peabody, A...
Ian Hislop presents an entertaining and provocative look at Victorian attitudes to the poor, exploring the views o...
Lucy Worsley discusses the bad health and supposed madness of George III.
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