Medical Mavericks
Dr Michael Mosley explores how pioneering doctors laid the foundations of modern medicine.
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1.Anaesthesia
17-06-2008Michael 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.
2.Discovering Vaccines
24-06-2008Michael Mosley explores how pioneering doctors learnt to harness the immune system by exposing themselves to incurable diseases like rabies, typhoid and polio.
3.Diet and Disease
01-07-2008Dr Michael Mosley explores the lengths to which pioneering doctors have gone to uncover the connections between what we eat and what we die from.
4.Beating Infection
08-07-2008Michael 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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