Michael Mosley
Medical Mavericks (2008)
Season 1
Dr Michael Mosley explores how pioneering doctors laid the foundations of modern medicine.
Released June 16, 2008
Episode 42 min
None+
Genres: Documentary
Keywords: mdblist.imdb-tv-mini-series, imdb.tv-mini-series
Network: BBC Four
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S1E1 - 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.
June 17, 2008, midnight
S1E2 - 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.
June 24, 2008, midnight
S1E3 - 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.
July 1, 2008, midnight
S1E4 - Beating Infection
Michael Mosley looks at how doctors came to understand infectious diseases by deliberately infecting themselves with conditions such syphilis and yellow fever.
July 8, 2008, midnight
Network: BBC Four
Episode Runtime: 42 min.
Season Runtime: 42 min.
Released: June 16, 2008
Last Air Date: July 8, 2008, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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