Medical Science has experienced an outsized growth spurt over the past 100 years, generating remarkable discoveries, transformative procedures and “bionic” equipment. These have combined to lengthen our life-spans by 50%. We longer-lived humans have also come to view our bodies and our very selves quite differently from previous generations. In 90 brimming minutes, veteran medical historian Dr. Mike Magee ’69 tells the whole surprising story. He’ll ensure we grasp how far we’ve come, who brought us, what we left behind, and what may lie ahead. This fascinating odyssey pauses at 10 medical high points to explain each advance and to describe those who achieved the breakthroughs, revolutionizing the art and science of medicine.
Presenter: Mike Magee, MD, is a medical historian and journalist, and the author of Code Blue: Inside the Medical Industrial Complex (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2019). He has taught at the Presidents’ College and the C. Everett Koop Institute at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and Jefferson Medical College. He was also an Honorary Master Scholar at the N.Y.U. School of Medicine, the 2008 Distinguished Alumnus award recipient from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, and the 2009 Ignatian Award Recipient for Professional Achievement at Le Moyne College. He lives in West Hartford, CT, and is the editor of the weekly blog Health Commentary.org.
