Odd Medical Treatments of the Past (2015)
An expert examines how far we’ve come in medicine by focusing on past practices, which lead him to conclude doctors in ancient Greece provided better care than those in the U.S. 150 years ago.
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- World War II (5)
HIV from the Beginning
When AIDS first became widespread in the 1980's, it was a death sentence. A doctor who has spent her entire career on the front lines of HIV recounts the gloom and desperation of the early days and the transition of HIV into a treatable chronic disease.
Learning from Traditional Societies
An expert discusses his study of traditional native societies, which shows how human genetics have not adapted to change.
