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Transplant
In 1967, Christiaan Barnard performed the first heart transplant operation.
The Crippler
Andrew traces the impact of the great polio epidemics and the ethical dilemmas they posed.
Free at the Point of Need
The National Health Service was set up in 1948 to provide free healthcare for everyone.
It Looks Like a Miracle
The first antibiotic, penicillin, appeared to be a miracle medicine.
You Are What You Eat
How medics discovered that the absence of a vitamin could be the cause of a disease.
Near Pavilions
The influence of Florence Nightingale and the sanitarians.
Flinging the Tropics Open to Civilisation
What role did European medicine play in spreading European culture across the Empire?
The Ministry of Healing
Needing to consult laboratory workers was seen as a threat to physicians' authority.
Transforming Plague
When bubonic plague broke out in Hong Kong in 1894, European rivalry continued.
Culturing the Germ Theory
How a country doctor from Prussia traced the life cycle of an anthrax bacteria cell.
