How advances in medical science help our understanding of what it means to be healthy
World Service,·580 episodes
Report on The Declaration of Alma-Ata signed in 1988
10 Dec 2000,·23 mins
Can doctors learn about population medicine from farm veterinarians?
21 Dec 2000,·24 mins
A report on how doctors and veterinary learn from each other
23 Dec 2000,·23 mins
The differing views and approaches towards mental illness from the world's many cultures
01 Jan 2001,·24 mins
The ambitious but successful transplant of one man's hand onto another man's arm
04 Jan 2001,·24 mins
The advantages and disadvantages brought about by globalisation
05 Jan 2001,·24 mins
Charting the use of potions, herbs and drugs to relieve suffering through the ages
11 Jan 2001,·23 mins
A report on healers around the world
25 Jan 2001,·24 mins
An interview with 2001 Nobel Prize winner Sir Paul Nurse
26 Jan 2001,·24 mins
Looking at the links between good health and education
12 Feb 2001,·24 mins
The gap between healthcare available to the rich and poor is growing, what does this mean?
13 Feb 2001,·26 mins
Advancing technology and the opportunities offered by the human genome project
A report on the link between economic prosperity, democracy and good health
16 Feb 2001,·24 mins
A report on the Women's Crisis Centre in Manila
07 Mar 2001,·23 mins
A report from the Fistula Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
14 Mar 2001,·24 mins
A report from Dakar Community Hospital in Senegal
15 Mar 2001,·23 mins
Listeners get advice on the risks associated with both pregnancy and having a baby
11 Apr 2001,·24 mins
Has psychology improved our understand of mental health, and one another?
16 May 2001,·24 mins
A century of psychology in the classroom, including the use of intelligence tests
19 May 2001,·24 mins
A report on the advent of clinical psychology and the influence of Sigmund Freud
20 May 2001,·24 mins
A report from Iran where the birth rate has fallen dramatically thanks to family planning
01 Jun 2001,·23 mins
A report on the work of the International Planned Parenthood Federation
07 Jun 2001,·24 mins
Is anxiety part and parcel of being a parent?
08 Jun 2001,·24 mins
A report on how babies learn language
14 Jun 2001,·24 mins
How children develop their talents, a look at intelligence in all of its forms
21 Jun 2001,·24 mins
The tantrums, crying and the sleeping habits of infants
29 Jun 2001,·23 mins
Why heart disease could become the biggest cause of death worldwide within the decade
20 Jul 2001,·24 mins
Cervical cancer can be prevented, yet 300,000 women die from it each year
24 Jul 2001,·24 mins
A special report on TB as the World Health Organisation declares a global emergency
01 Aug 2001,·24 mins
Losing control of bladder or bowels is common and preventable
01 Aug 2001,·23 mins
