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Have you ever watched a sci-fi movie and thought, “Wow, that would be cool if it was real!” Yet, if you look at the history of medicine, more advances have occurred in the last 50 years than in all time. So, where will medicine go from here? Medical procedures or devices are used to prevent, relieve, treat, or cure the symptoms of human suffering caused by a disease or an accident. Medical inventions have existed for thousands of years and are constantly improving or innovating. In this lesson, students will research how medicine has changed throughout history through enhancements in design.
Afterlife (Live forever)
Afterlife (Live forever)
Virtual Reality "reunites" mother with deceased daughter in South Korean (2 mins, YouTube)
Age Reversal Pill Works!! (Video)
Arms
Arms
Every Prototype that Led to a Realistic Prosthetic Arm (video)
The Teen With The Bionic Arms (video, 9 mins)
Nika uses Esper Hand (video, 2 mins)
Background
Background
Slides Used in Class: 20th Century: 5.0 Scientific Revolution
Side note: 20 Emerging Technologies That Will Change Our World
Brain/Mind
Brain/Mind
The Science Behind Elon Musk’s Neuralink Brain Chip (video, 9 mins)
Updated Neuralink Progress (YouTube)
Black Mirror "Relive your memories (YouTube)
Brain-Spine Interface (BSI) Surgery out of China (Website)
A History of the Madhouse (video, 50 mins)
@8:40 Electroshock Treatment
@11:50 Lobotomy
@14:00 Mental Patient Abuse
@37:00 Burning of the Brain
@53:30 No care outside the walls
Eterni.me (video, 9 mins)
Removal of the brain in dissection hall (video 9 mins)
Cancers
Cancers
Preventing Cancer (YouTube Short)(Studies website)
Eyes
Eyes
Hand
Hand
Palm-payment technology coming to all U.S. Whole Foods (2 mins, YouTube)
Heart
Heart
The Fitness Model Without a Pulse (video, 3 mins)
Craig Lewis Was The World's First Heartless Human (video, 3 mins)
Stan Larkin, 25-Year-Old Man Gets Heart Machine and Heart (4 mins, YouTube)
Legs
Legs
Leg Lengthening Surgery (Are you short? Do you want to be taller?) (YouTube, Tiktok)
The Foot Saves the Hand (website) Rate-R graphic blood.
Misc
Misc
Cleveland Clinic Unveils Top 10 Medical Innovations For 2021 (website)
This website is an excellent repository showing medical inventions from 2021. The mind boggles where the future of medicine is headed.
5 Most Disturbing & Barbaric Medical Treatments In History (video, 9 mins)
10 Times Black Mirror Predicted The Future (video, 10 mins)
@1:55 Uncanny Valley
@3:50 History of you
Getting Better: 200 Years of Medicine (video 45 mins)
One comment that sticks out is, ‘Cancer was never a thing because we didn't live long enough to get cancer, but now…” This video does a great job discussing how quickly diseases overtake the human body and how quickly medicine is combating that threat
Radical Surgery
Radical Surgery
Man's severed hand grafted to foot after accident in China (3 mins, YouTube)
Robots
Robots
Magnetic SLIME ROBOT (video, 3 mins)
How This Humanoid Robot Was Made (video, 5 mins)
The machine enters the body to 3D print living cells (YouTube, TikTok)
Robot Surgeons and 4 Other Medical Advances That Sound Like Sci-Fi (video 11 mins)
Amazing innovations within the last 50 years!
Spine
Spine
Digital Bridge: Curing Spinal Breaks (Video, 3 mins)
Suicide
Suicide
Suicide Capsule (video, 60 seconds)
When I'm Gone (Website)
Teeth
Teeth
Cures and grows teeth (Website)
Womb
Womb
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