Title: Doctors
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.
Subjects: Medicine, Biography, History
People: W. T. G. Morton (1819-1868), Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902), William Halsted (1852-1922), John Hunter (1728-1793), R. T. H. Laennec (1781-1826), William Harvey (1578-1657), Galen, Hippocrates, Helen B. Taussig (1898-1986), Joseph Lister Baron (1827-1912), Giambattista Morgagni (1682-1771), Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564)