The Day the universe changed, Social impacts of new medical knowledge [Videorecording] Co-produced by BBC-TV and RKO Pictures.

Contributor(s): Burke, James, 1936- | British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service | RKO PicturesMaterial type: FilmFilmReference number:19232892Publication details: Los Angeles, CA : Churchill Films, [1986?] Description: 1 videocassette (VHS) (52 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. + 1 study guideSubject(s): Social medicine | Physician and patient | Depersonalization | Social changeLOC classification: RA418Production credits: Producer, John Lynch ; written and presented by James Burke.Summary: Looks at the rise of modern medicine and public health and their relationship to statistics which doctors have learned to apply to diseases, cures, and epidemics. Explains that as medicine became increasingly a science, patients increasingly became statistics.
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VHS format.

Originally broadcast as part of the PBS Television series The day the universe changed.

Has companion volume by James Burke with the same title as this series. 509.B917D.

Broadcast title : What the doctor ordered.

In two parts.

Study guide in container.

Producer, John Lynch ; written and presented by James Burke.

Looks at the rise of modern medicine and public health and their relationship to statistics which doctors have learned to apply to diseases, cures, and epidemics. Explains that as medicine became increasingly a science, patients increasingly became statistics.

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