August 20, 2008 • 1h
A look at the area of the body where surgery has been most frightening - the brain. Just over 100 years ago, cutting into the bra...Read more
August 27, 2008 • 1h
Michael Mosley has a go at heart surgery and meets a man with no heartbeat. With a family history of heart problems, presenter Mi...Read more
September 3, 2008 • 1h
Transplant surgery development, from a Nazi sympathiser to new life-saving operations. These days, transplant surgery saves thou...Read more
September 10, 2008 • 1h
Michael Mosley examines plastic surgery, from 16th-century bondage to 21st-century botox. Thought of as a modern phenomenon, it a...Read more
September 17, 2008 • 1h
How surgery was dragged out of the dark ages, transforming from butchery into a science. Presenter Michael Mosley finds out how t...Read more