Edward Goldwyn
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
Epidemics: Filmed in the UK, Australia and the USA, Prague and Italy, this episode takes up the theme that , ironically, epidemics are the results of so-called progress and that despite medical technology, we are still vulnerable to old and new diseases that can change the course of history...In 1980 a woman in Lake Tahoe, California, died of pneumonic plague. She ran a creche that looked after 150 children. Her cat had caught it from a chipmunk and...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
Invisible Armies: Filmed in the UK, Australia, Iceland, Hawaii and the USA, this episode looks at the interaction between our immune system and history. It draws the map of the world according to disease history and helps explain why Africa is still black. Jamaica has become black and Australia and the USA are mainly European.This series of four hours investigates the relationship between history, destiny and disease. An ancient disease has reached...
3) Plagued
Publisher
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Conceived, written and narrated by award-winning broadcaster Dr Norman Swan, this four-part series investigates the relationship between history, destiny and disease. Every era has its new diseases. AIDS is not the first and it won't be the last. Our history and our destiny are shaped by our diseases. Filmed in the UK and Europe, Australia, the USA and Asia, the series looks at the origins of disease, epidemics, the interaction between our immune...