11 Episodes

  1. The Trauma Victims and their Blood

    Published: 9/15/2024

  2. The Gay Man and the Pleasure Shocks

    Published: 9/8/2024

  3. The Man with an Artificial Windpipe

    Published: 9/1/2024

  4. The Boy with an Ice Pick in his Brain

    Published: 8/25/2024

  5. The Mothers of Gynaecology

    Published: 8/17/2024

  6. The Farmers and The Goat Testicle Transplants

    Published: 8/11/2024

  7. The Woman Who Resisted Mind Control

    Published: 8/4/2024

  8. The Children Whose Teeth Were Destroyed

    Published: 7/29/2024

  9. The Prisoners Used for Their Skin

    Published: 7/21/2024

  10. The Man with a Hole in His Stomach

    Published: 7/14/2024

  11. Introducing The Human Subject

    Published: 7/5/2024

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Humanity's journey to understanding the body has been a gory one; littered with unethical experiments, unintended consequences and unimaginable endurance. It's the story of catastrophic failures, at great human cost - but also successes which made history and saved countless lives.In The Human Subject, Dr Adam Rutherford and Dr Julia Shaw investigate the threads connecting modern day medicine to its often brutal origins. With every episode they explore some of that dark history and ask - is our present day knowledge worth the suffering it took to get us here?