Marvellous Medicines and How They Changed Humanity

This series highlights amazing medicines which have changed humanity, from antibiotics and painkillers through to weight-loss treatments. Each lecture presenting a type of transformative medicine, they explore the history of the first of each of these medicines, discovering what the world was like before it, living the story of its discovery and highlighting the impact it made on the world. It brings these stories into the current age, showing how cutting-edge science is producing better medicines to deliver the same world-changing impacts. These stories are important today as it is critical people understand the transformative power of medicine, and how our lives are enriched by it.