Anne Hardy
Honorary Professor at the Centre for History in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
4 episodes
Covers topics in categories such as:
Louis Pasteur
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of Louis Pasteur, microbiologist, developer of vaccines, saviour of the French beer and wine industries and preserver of milk.
18 May 2017
Also featuring: Andrew Mendelsohn, Michael Worboys
ScienceMembers of the American Philosophical SocietyRecipients of the Copley MedalForeign associates of the National Academy of SciencesHonorary members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of SciencesFrench Roman CatholicsMembers of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and SciencesMembers of the French Academy of SciencesMembers of the Académie FrançaiseÉcole Normale Supérieure alumniMembers of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and ArtsForeign members of the Royal SocietyGrand Cross of the Legion of Honour19th-century French chemistsFrench scientists with disabilitiesAnaesthetics
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of anaesthetics, from laughing gas in the 1790s to the discovery of “blessed chloroform”.
29 March 2007
Also featuring: David Wilkinson, Stephanie Snow
Blood
Melvyn Bragg discusses blood from medical progress to the link to the divine and how it was used to define both Man and Messiah.
22 May 2003
Also featuring: Miri Rubin, Jonathan Sawday
Man and Disease
Melvyn Bragg discusses how humans have understood and fought disease throughout history, and examines the social consequences of diseases such as smallpox, bubonic plague, cholera, TB and AIDS.
12 December 2002
Also featuring: David Bradley, Chris Dye