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Is Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery coming back?

Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery (2008–2008) — medical · history on BBC Four

The answer: Concluded September 17, 2008.
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Genre
Medical · History
Network / streamer
BBC Four
Premiered
August 20, 2008
Ended
September 17, 2008
Runtime
~60 min per episode
1season
5episodes

About Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery

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…

Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery episode schedule

5 aired

Aired · 5

DateEp.Title
September 17, 2008 S1·E5 Bloody Beginnings
September 10, 2008 S1·E4 Fixing Faces
September 3, 2008 S1·E3 Spare Parts
August 27, 2008 S1·E2 Bleeding Hearts
August 20, 2008 S1·E1 Into the Brain

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