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Blood and Guts: A History of SurgeryEpisodes

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  1. Bloody Beginnings

    How surgery was dragged out of the dark ages, transforming from butchery into a science.

  2. Fixing Faces

    Michael Mosley examines plastic surgery, from 16th-century bondage to 21st-century botox.

  3. Spare Parts

    Transplant surgery development, from a Nazi sympathiser to new life-saving operations.

  4. Bleeding Hearts

    Michael Mosley has a go at heart surgery and meets a man with no heartbeat.

  5. Into the Brain

    A look at the area of the body where surgery has been most frightening - the brain.