15 Greatest Milestones in Health and Medicine Online Lecture Series

Lecture One
THE PILL: EVOLUTION OF A REVOLUTION

Professor Ian Fraser
The Queen Elizabeth II Research Institute for Mothers and Infants
The University of Sydney

Introduction of "The Pill" has seen dramatic ramifications within society and medicine through sociology, demography, politics, theology, economics, education, sexuality, lifestyle, psychology and more.

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Lecture Two
MEDICINES FOR THE TORTURED MIND (.mp3)

Professor Ian Hickie
Brain and Mind Research Institute
The University of Sydney

The lunatic asylums of the last centuary were a desperate response to the mysteries of psychosis. Find out how a miraculous new drug called chlorpromazine changed these insitutions forever.

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