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The Great Expectations of Medical Science

Are we expecting too much of our healthcare system?

Are we expecting too much of our healthcare system? This programme in the series looks at the provision of health care and whether we have come to expect too much of modern medicine. Advances like antibiotics have proven that with medicine you can have too much of a good thing, while a cure for the malaria parasite remains elusive. Also a look at the issues surrounding the prolonging of life with a serious illness.

This is a programme from the 大象传媒 World Service Archive and was originally broadcast in 1997.

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43 minutes

大象传媒 World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project

大象传媒 World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project