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Episodes from Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery broadcast in 2008

September
  1. Bloody Beginnings
    How surgery was dragged out of the dark ages, transforming from butchery into a science. (R)
  2. Bloody Beginnings
    How surgery was dragged out of the dark ages, transforming from butchery into a science.
  3. Fixing Faces
    Michael Mosley examines plastic surgery, from 16th-century bondage to 21st-century botox. (R)
  4. Fixing Faces
    Michael Mosley examines plastic surgery, from 16th-century bondage to 21st-century botox.
  5. Spare Parts
    Transplant surgery development, from a Nazi sympathiser to new life-saving operations. (R)
  6. Spare Parts
    Transplant surgery development, from a Nazi sympathiser to new life-saving operations.
August
  1. Bleeding Hearts
    Michael Mosley has a go at heart surgery and meets a man with no heartbeat. (R)
  2. Bleeding Hearts
    Michael Mosley has a go at heart surgery and meets a man with no heartbeat.
  3. Into the Brain
    A look at the area of the body where surgery has been most frightening - the brain. (R)
  4. Into the Brain
    A look at the area of the body where surgery has been most frightening - the brain.

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