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Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery

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Original run: 20.08.2008 — 17.09.2008
Country of origin: UK
Genre: History, Medical
Network: BBC Four
Watched by: 49 864 980
Total running time: 3 hours 35 minutes
Episode duration: 43 min.
Episodes count: 5
IMDB rating: 8.6 of 10 75
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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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Fixing Faces
10.09.2008
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Spare Parts
03.09.2008
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Bleeding Hearts
27.08.2008
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Into the Brain
20.08.2008
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