Medical Mavericks (2008)
Synopsis
Dr Michael Mosley explores how pioneering doctors laid the foundations of modern medicine.
First Air Date: 2008-06-17
Last Air Date: 2008-07-08
Number of Seasons: 1
Number of Episodes: 4
Networks: BBC Four
Top Cast
- Michael Mosley as Self - Presenter
Seasons
Season 1 (2008)
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Episodes:
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Ep. 1: Anaesthesia
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.
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Ep. 2: Discovering Vaccines
Michael Mosley explores how pioneering doctors learnt to harness the immune system by exposing themselves to incurable diseases like rabies, typhoid and polio.
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Ep. 3: Diet and Disease
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.
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Ep. 4: Beating Infection
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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