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Cures
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Throughout the history of mankind, the business of curing, understanding, and treating disease has taken a rather peculiar path. Some procedures have proven to be very efficient while other methods...
Throughout the history of mankind, the business of curing, understanding, and treating disease has taken a rather peculiar path. Some procedures have proven to be very efficient while other methods could only have made things worse for the patient. This program traces the history of bacteria and antibiotics. From Alexander Fleming to "super drugs" for superbugs, have these cures led to bacteria becoming more resistant and harder to kill? What else will the future bring? A cure against the flu?
Details
- Creator
- Looking Glass Pictures
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York, N.Y. : Films Media Group, [2012], c2011
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 streaming video file (30 min.) : sd., col
- digital
- data file
- OCLC
- ocn828745319
- Access requires authentication through Films on Demand.
- Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Films Media Group on October 02, 2012.
- Films on Demand is distributed by Films Media Group for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
- Mode of access: Internet.
- System requirements: FOD playback platform.
- Closed-captioned.
- Four Bodily Humors (2:32) -- Bloodletting (3:26) -- Placebo Effects (2:26) -- Disinfection Discovery (2:26) -- Antony Van Leeuwenhoek (3:06) -- Immunization and Antibiotics (3:48) -- Problem of Superbugs (2:45) -- Mutable Flu Virus (2:50) -- Credits: Cures: Quirky Science (0:45)