Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery - Season 1

Season 1

Episodes

Into the Brain
Documentary series looking at the brutal, bloody and dangerous history of surgery begins with the area of the body where it has been most frightening - the brain.

Bleeding Hearts
The series about the history of surgery charts the development of heart surgery. Michael Mosley witnesses a breathtaking operation and meets a man with no heartbeat.

Spare Parts
Series about the history of surgery continues with a look at the development of transplant surgery, from a Nazi sympathiser to the latest miraculous operations.

Fixing Faces
Series about the history of surgery continues with a look at the development of plastic surgery, which started over 400 years ago with a spate of botched nose jobs.

Bloody Beginnings
Michael Mosley looks at how surgery dragged itself kicking and screaming out of the dark ages, transforming itself from butchery into a science.
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