Medical Mavericks
Season 1
4 episodes · Jun 17, 2008
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S1E1Anaesthesia
Jun 17, 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.
S1E2Discovering Vaccines
Jun 24, 2008Michael Mosley explores how pioneering doctors learnt to harness the immune system by exposing themselves to incurable diseases like rabies, typhoid and polio.
S1E3Diet and Disease
Jul 1, 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.
S1E4Beating Infection
Jul 8, 2008Michael Mosley looks at how doctors came to understand infectious diseases by deliberately infecting themselves with conditions such syphilis and yellow fever.