• Ended
  • 2004-11-22T00:00:00Z
  • 45m
  • 3h (4 episodes)
  • Documentary
About breaking taboos, daring experiments and dangerous experiments, but also the story of mere accidents that led to groundbreaking discoveries. Tells this story in the most exciting, informative and understandable way.

4 episodes

Series Premiere

2004-11-22T00:00:00Z

1x01 The First Breath

Series Premiere

1x01 The First Breath

  • 2004-11-22T00:00:00Z45m

Includes the following topics: Pregnancies with complications Saving the premature infant The scourge of smallpox The breakthroughs of Louis Pasteur The fight against tuberculosis X-Rays and seeing into the human body

2004-11-23T00:00:00Z

1x02 The Wild Years

1x02 The Wild Years

  • 2004-11-23T00:00:00Z45m

Includes the following topics: The birth control pill revolution Syphillis - Cupid's poison arrow The rise of AIDS Searching for the human seed Battlefield medicine from bone saws and wound clamps Ether, chloroform and laughing gas

2004-11-24T00:00:00Z

1x03 Mid-Life

1x03 Mid-Life

  • 2004-11-24T00:00:00Z45m

Includes the following topics: The inner workings of the heart The deadly clotting of blood Artificial kidneys and dialysis The battle against diabetes Unraveling the stomach ulcer mystery Drugs from alchemy to pharmacy The miracle of penicillin

2004-11-25T00:00:00Z

1x04 Aging and Death

1x04 Aging and Death

  • 2004-11-25T00:00:00Z45m

Includes the following topics: Life saving heart transplants 200 years of cancer research Radiation and chemotherapy Fight against blindness Mapping the brain Alzheimer's - The disease of the 21st century DNA and gene mapping

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