Medical Mavericks

Name: Medical Mavericks
Genre: Medical
Released: 2007-03-31
Cast: Michael Mosley

Cadena:BBC Four

Médico

Episodio Anterior

S01E04 - "Beating Infection"

Emitido el Apr 21, 2007, 7:30 PM

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Descripción

Animals and lab tests can only take you so far - in the end you have to experiment on people. But who would want to go first? Award-winning journalist and former doctor Michael Mosley exposes the curious, gruesome and sometimes fatal ways in which scientists have transformed medical knowledge by using themselves as guinea pigs.

Detalles

Estado: Finalizada
Idioma: English
Duración: 60 min
Estreno: March 31, 2007
Finalizado: April 21, 2007
Horario: Saturday a las 20:30

Enlaces Externos

Episodios (1 Temporada · 4 Episodios)

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.

Mar 31, 2007

60 min

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.

Apr 7, 2007

60 min

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.

Apr 14, 2007

60 min

Beating Infection

Michael Mosley looks at how doctors came to understand infectious diseases by deliberately infecting themselves with conditions such syphilis and yellow fever.

Apr 21, 2007

60 min