Medical Mavericks - Series 1

Dr Michael Mosley explores the ways in which pioneering doctors laid the foundations of modern medicine by experimenting on themselves

Medical Mavericks - Series 1 - 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.

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Medical Mavericks - Series 1 - Beating Infection

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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Medical Mavericks - Series 1 - 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.

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Medical Mavericks - Series 1 - 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.

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