Season 1 Episodes
1. Anaesthesia
June 17th, 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. Discovering Vaccines
June 24th, 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. Diet and Disease
July 1st, 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. Beating Infection
July 8th, 2008
Michael Mosley looks at how doctors came to understand infectious diseases by deliberately infecting themselves with conditions such syphilis and yellow fever.
Movie and TV Reviews
Top Movies
Become a better you.
Join the family.
What happens behind these walls will change everything.
Like justice, it existed in theory.
Top Series
Same luxury. New reservations.
There's more to work than life.
Reacher's back.
We hear the wilderness and it hears us.
From long shot to big shot.
