Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery (Documentary, English)
Genres: Medical, History
Status: Ended
Premiered: 2008-08-20
Ended: 2008-09-17
Network: BBC Four
Country: GB
Airs on: Wednesday
Air time: 21:00
Runtime: 60 minutes
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…