Modern medicine
By: presented by Don Cruickshank ; BBC for The Open University ; produced and directed by Jonathan Hassid
Contributors: British Broadcasting Corporation; Open University; Films for the Humanities (Firm)
Series: What the Industrial Revolution did for us
Publisher: Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 30
Subjects: Medicine; History; Smallpox vaccine; Clinical trials; Ventilation; Health aspects; Industrial revolution
Description: Don Cruickshank traces the devlopments in medicine that took place during the Industrial Revolution: the transformation of folk remdies to potent medicines, the invention of ventilation systems to combat the spread of disease, the creation of the smallpox vaccine, and the start of what is now known as clinical trials.
Notes: DVD.