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In 1967, Christiaan Barnard performed the first heart transplant operation.
Andrew traces the impact of the great polio epidemics and the ethical dilemmas they posed.
The National Health Service was set up in 1948 to provide free healthcare for everyone.
The first antibiotic, penicillin, appeared to be a miracle medicine.
How medics discovered that the absence of a vitamin could be the cause of a disease.
The influence of Florence Nightingale and the sanitarians.
What role did European medicine play in spreading European culture across the Empire?
Needing to consult laboratory workers was seen as a threat to physicians' authority.
When bubonic plague broke out in Hong Kong in 1894, European rivalry continued.
How a country doctor from Prussia traced the life cycle of an anthrax bacteria cell.
