The History of Medicine

This week, we finish up the Renaissance era with talk of how local administration of public health improved. We'll walk through some new ways to handle sewage, water supplies, and hospitals were handled in the era, and then sum things up.Check out our website!E-mail me!Say hi on Facebook!

This week we talk through some new ideas in public health that rise in the 1500s-1700s. People propose collecting new statistics, and governments generally taking much more of an active role in maintaining public health. Check out our website!E-mail me!Say hi on Facebook!

This week, we go over the advancements in understanding the causes of disease. Miasma theory continues to thrive, but also new ideas about tiny seeds causing disease spring up. We get very close to our modern understanding of germs, but fall just a bit short. Check out our website!E-mail me!Say hi on Facebook!

This week, we'll talk about syphilis, which will illustrate an early example of a sexually transmitted disease, as well as how social factors like stigmas and geopolitics can affect public health. Check out our website!E-mail me!Say hi on Facebook!

This week, we progress to the age of discovery, and learn about Bernardino Ramazzini, known as the father of occupational therapy. He studied over 50 types of jobs, and the health effects those jobs can have, and many of his findings are still useful to this day. Check out our website!E-mail me!Say hi on Facebook!

Let's finish up with the Middle Ages this week. We'll talk about two illnesses that would shape public health in this time period, leprosy and the bubonic plague. Between them, a practice that we call quarantine will be born. Simultaneously, hospitals will spread across the land, bringing our time in the Middle Ages to a close. Check out our website!E-mail me!Say hi on Facebook!

This week, we're in the Middle Ages, also known as the medieval era. We'll follow the state of public health knowledge from where it was under the Romans to the scattered city states that followed. Some knowledge was lost, but eventually many things are rediscovered, and some innovations were made, like some of the early regulations on food. Check out our website!E-mail me!Say hi on Facebook!

Hello everyone, we're back, for season 3, about public health. As per usual, to start, we'll go over what was figured out in the earliest times, which I think you'll also find is a surprisingly good amount. We'll touch too a little on the work of the Ancient Greeks and Romans, and then call it a day there. Check out our website!E-mail me!Say hi on Facebook!

This week, we talk about the future of surgery. Virtual reality, augmented reality, 3-D printed organs, the future is exciting, and I look forward to seeing the field of surgery continue to develop. Check out our website!E-mail me!Say hi on Facebook!Transcripts and Sources here!

For our last historical topic of the season, we'll look at robotic surgery. It starts in the late 1980s, with new robots that could perform very specific tasks, like biopsies. The story continues to this very day, with modern surgeon-controlled surgery robots, that allow for safer and better surgeries than ever.Check out our website!E-mail me!Say hi on Facebook!Transcripts and Sources here!