Medicine [videorecording] /Discovery Education ; producer and director, Michael F. Fountain ; writer, Michael Angelella ; produced by Thinkfilm, inc. for the Science Channel ; Discovery Communications, Inc.
Contributor(s): Nye, Bill | Fountain, Michael F | Angelella, Michael | Discovery School (Firm) | Discovery Education | Thinkfilm (Firm) | Science Channel (Firm) | Discovery Communications, Inc.
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Visual materialSeries: Greatest discoveries with Bill Nye. Publisher: Silver Spring, MD : Discovery School, 2005, c2004Edition: Widescreen format.Description: 1 videodisc (45 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.ISBN: 1595273174; 9781595273178.Uniform titles: 100 greatest discoveries (Television program) Subject(s): Medicine | Medicine -- History | Discoveries in science | Films for the hearing impaired | Medicine | Medicine -- History | Discoveries in science | Films for the hearing impaired | Medicine | Medicine -- History | Discoveries in science | Closed caption video recordings | VideodiscsGenre/Form: Science television programs. | DVD-Video discs.DDC classification: 610 Young Adult Follett Library Resources
DVD.
Closed-captioned.
Hosted by Bill Nye.
Directors of photography, Tom Inskeep, Jeff Saunders ; editor, Laurel Cobble ; original music, Blue Dot.
Originally produced as an episode of the television program 100 greatest discoveries in 2004.
Includes correlations to national standards.
Examines key advances in the history of medicine, discussing the importance of early discoveries in human anatomy and blood circulation, the development of anesthesia and x-rays, the science behind germ theory, and the impact of penicillin and antibiotics, and looking at diabetes, cancer, and AIDS, and their therapies.
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