Medical Mavericks

Season 1

2008 · 4 episodes

Episodes

1. 

   1. Anaesthesia

   17 Jun 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.

2. 

   2. Discovering Vaccines

   24 Jun 2008

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

3. 

   3. Diet and Disease

   1 Jul 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.

4. 

   4. Beating Infection

   8 Jul 2008

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