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Medical Mavericks

Medical Mavericks (2008)

June. 17,2008

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Medical Mavericks

Dr Michael Mosley explores how pioneering doctors laid the foundations of modern medicine.

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Medical Mavericks

2008

Dr Michael Mosley explores how pioneering doctors laid the foundations of modern medicine.

Seasons & Episode

Seasons 1 : 2008

4 Episode

Episode 1 - Anaesthesia

June. 17,2008

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.

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Episode 2 - Discovering Vaccines

June. 24,2008

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

Episode 3 - Diet and Disease

July. 01,2008

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.

Episode 4 - Beating Infection

July. 08,2008

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

Dr Michael Mosley explores how pioneering doctors laid the foundations of modern medicine.