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📊 Series Specifications
Network BBC Four
Episode Runtime ~ min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 4
Original Language EN
Medical Mavericks (2008)
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Synopsis
Dr Michael Mosley explores how pioneering doctors laid the foundations of modern medicine.
Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
4 Episodes E1 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.
E2 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.
E3 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.
E4 Beating Infection
Michael Mosley looks at how doctors came to understand infectious diseases by deliberately infecting themselves with conditions such syphilis and yellow fever.