Doctors
Subtitle: the history of scientific medicine revealed through biography
By: Sherwin B. Nuland ; Teaching Company
Contributors: Teaching Company
Series: The great courses
Publisher: Teaching Co.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Chantilly, VA
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 180
Subjects: Medicine; Biography; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Restricted to home use or face to face teaching.

Instructor: Sherman B. Nuland.

DVD.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: 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.