Scene Index
Disc #1 -- A Matter of Life and Death: Magic Moments and Dark Hours in the History of Medicine
1. Play Program [3:26]
2. Difficult Pregnancies [6:25]
3. Succumbing to a Mysterious Fever [6:24]
4. Premature Birth [7:16]
5. The Scourge of Smallpox [6:38]
6. Breakthroughs of Louis Pasteur [6:04]
7. The Stethoscope and Tuberculosis [7:45]
8. The Discovery of X-Rays [7:28]
9. Play Program [3:11]
10. Birth Control Pill Revolution [5:08]
11. Syphilis - Cupid's Poison Arrow [5:24]
12. The Rise of Aids [8:16]
13. The Search for the Human Seed [7:54]
14. Bone Saws and Wound Clamps [2:09]
15. The Bible of Human Anatomy [10:58]
16. Ether, Chloroform and Laughing Gas [8:36]
Disc #2 -- A Matter of Life and Death: Magic Moments and Dark Hours in the History of Medicine
1. Play Program [3:24]
2. The Heart Is a Pump [5:29]
3. The Deadly Clotting of Blood [8:27]
4. Artificial Kidneys and Dialysis [10:15]
5. Diabetes - Easy to Spot, Hard to Cure [7:25]
6. Unravelling the Stomach Ulcer Mystery [6:12]
7. Drugs From Alchemy to Pharmacy [3:14]
8. The Discovery of Penicillin [7:10]
9. Play Program [2:43]
10. Life Threatening Experiments [6:14]
11. The Evolution of Heart Transplants [8:32]
12. 200 Years of Cancer Research [5:36]
13. Radiation and Chemotherapy [6:37]
14. Fighting Blindness over the Centuries [9:38]
15. Alzeimer's - The Disease of the 21st Century [6:50]
16. DNA and Gene Research [5:13]