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Medical Mavericks

Medical · 2007

Last aired: S1 E4, Beating Infection · 2007-04-21

Animals and lab tests can only take you so far - in the end you have to experiment on people. But who would want to go first? Award-winning journalist and former doctor Michael Mosley exposes the curious, gruesome and sometimes fatal ways in which scientists have transformed medical knowledge by using themselves as guinea pigs.

Cast

Michael Mosley Presenter

Season 1

E1 Anaesthesia 2007-03-31 · 60 min Michael Mosley explores the work of the pioneering doctors who laid the foundations of modern medicine. He begins by charting the development of pain-free surgery.

E2 Discovering Vaccines 2007-04-07 · 60 min Michael Mosley explores how pioneering doctors learnt to harness the immune system by exposing themselves to incurable diseases like rabies, typhoid and polio.

E3 Diet and Disease 2007-04-14 · 60 min Dr Michael Mosley explores the lengths to which pioneering doctors have gone to uncover the connections between what we eat and what we die from.

E4 Beating Infection 2007-04-21 · 60 min Michael Mosley looks at how doctors came to understand infectious diseases by deliberately infecting themselves with conditions such syphilis and yellow fever.

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