Series·2008

Medical Mavericks

Dr Michael Mosley explores how pioneering doctors laid the foundations of modern medicine.

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AnaesthesiaE1 · 45 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.

Discovering VaccinesE2 · 45 min

Michael Mosley explores how pioneering doctors learnt to harness the immune system by exposing themselves to incurable diseases like rabies, typhoid and polio.

Diet and DiseaseE3 · 45 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.

Beating InfectionE4 · 45 min

Michael Mosley looks at how doctors came to understand infectious diseases by deliberately infecting themselves with conditions such syphilis and yellow fever.