Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Science and
Technology in
Medicine
- The scientific revolution as a
result of the Renaissance
- Establishment of the Royal Society to
discuss scientific knowledge
- The work of William Harvey
- The development of microscopes from 1700s onward
- Louis Pasteur and the Germ Theory 1861
- Robert Koch applying this to humans
- Development of magic bullets and penicillin
- Drug use in modern medicine
- Discovery of X-Rays in 1895
- Use of X-Ray machines in WW1
- Modern development of CAT and MRI scans
- Improvements in surgery
- Lister
- Snow and the chloroform inhaler
- Modern aseptic surgery
- Transplant surgery
- Discovery of DNA in 1953
- Possibility of genetic engineering in the future