8x50' | History/People | HD | 4K

CHN 2019

CCTV

"200 Years of Surgery" shows the fighting between human and disease systematically from the perspective of doctors. Through eight different themes, this scientific documentary reveals the development of surgery in the past 200 years.
With the initial expression of suffering and the initial desire to alleviate this pain, medicine came into being. How did humans embark on the scientific path from the primitive witchcraft to modern medicine, and start the era of modern surgery?
As people know more about the body structure and the technology develops fast, the goals on abdominal surgery, cranial cavity surgery and cardiac surgery are all achieved. Furthermore, the surgeons has even started to fight against cancer.
In the future, with the development of science and the progress of our society, the surgery will also take a qualitative leap. Not only the progress of technology, but also every change in surgery is closely related to the change of living standards, lifestyles and attitudes of the whole society.