Medical Mavericks
Season 12008
Dr Michael Mosley explores how pioneering doctors laid the foundations of modern medicine.
4 Episodes
E01 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
E02 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
E03 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
E04 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