History | Medical
Station:
BBC Four (UK)
Status:
Ended
Start:
2008-08-20
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Today, astonishing surgical breakthroughs are making face transplants, limb transplants and a host of other previously undreamed of operations possible. But getting here has not been a simple story of selfless men working tirelessly in the pursuit of medical advancement. Instead it's a bloodstained tale of blunders, arrogance, mishap and murder. In trying to keep us alive, surgeons have all too often killed us off, and life-saving solutions have often come from the most surprising places. Blood and Guts is an incredible story of stolen corpses, medical fraud, lobotomized patients – and every now and then courageous advances that have saved the lives of millions around the world. You may think twice before going under the knife…
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S1E3 - Spare Parts
Series about the history of surgery continues with a look at the development of transplant surgery, from a Nazi sympathiser to the latest miraculous operations.
Air Date: 03 Sep 2008 15:00 (CDT)
S1E4 - Fixing Faces
Series about the history of surgery continues with a look at the development of plastic surgery, which started over 400 years ago with a spate of botched nose jobs.
Air Date: 10 Sep 2008 15:00 (CDT)
S1E5 - Bloody Beginnings
Michael Mosley looks at how surgery dragged itself kicking and screaming out of the dark ages, transforming itself from butchery into a science.
Air Date: 17 Sep 2008 15:00 (CDT)