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Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery
Documentary series looking at the brutal, bloody and dangerous history of surgery.
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Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery
Michael Mosley has a go at heart surgery and meets a man with no heartbeat.
Aug 2008
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Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery
How surgery was dragged out of the dark ages, transforming from butchery into a science.
Sept 2008
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Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery
Michael Mosley examines plastic surgery, from 16th-century bondage to 21st-century botox.
Sept 2008
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Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery
A look at the area of the body where surgery has been most frightening - the brain.
Aug 2008
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Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery
Transplant surgery development, from a Nazi sympathiser to new life-saving operations.
Sept 2008