This is a four-part course. 

• Part 1 covers the birth of science and the scientific revolution and the question "is medicine a science?" using information from Siddhartha Mukherjee’s writings. Along with a possible answer, this will introduce microscopy using the light microscope and the electron microscope. 
  
• Part 2 will focus on physics and the impact on medicine through the discipline of radiology. 
• Part 3 will focus on chemistry in medicine using the examples of PCR (polymerase chain reaction) used in genomic research and COVID vaccines and the story of insulin. 
• Part 4 will close this course with cell biology and molecular biology and their impact on modern medicine. 
  

Shirin Nash is a retired pathologist and current co-chair of the OLLI at BCC Science Committee.

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