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Medical Mavericks

Season 1 2008

  • 2008-06-16T23:00:00Z on BBC Four
  • 42m
  • 2h 48m (4 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary
Dr Michael Mosley explores how pioneering doctors laid the foundations of modern medicine.

4 episodes

Series Premiere

2008-06-16T23:00:00Z

1x01 Anaesthesia

Series Premiere

1x01 Anaesthesia

  • 2008-06-16T23:00:00Z42m

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.

2008-06-23T23:00:00Z

1x02 Discovering Vaccines

1x02 Discovering Vaccines

  • 2008-06-23T23:00:00Z42m

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

2008-06-30T23:00:00Z

1x03 Diet and Disease

1x03 Diet and Disease

  • 2008-06-30T23:00:00Z42m

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.

2008-07-07T23:00:00Z

1x04 Beating Infection

1x04 Beating Infection

  • 2008-07-07T23:00:00Z42m

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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