The Human Subject
Een podcast door BBC Radio 4
11 Afleveringen
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The Trauma Victims and their Blood
Gepubliceerd: 15-9-2024 -
The Gay Man and the Pleasure Shocks
Gepubliceerd: 8-9-2024 -
The Man with an Artificial Windpipe
Gepubliceerd: 1-9-2024 -
The Boy with an Ice Pick in his Brain
Gepubliceerd: 25-8-2024 -
The Mothers of Gynaecology
Gepubliceerd: 17-8-2024 -
The Farmers and The Goat Testicle Transplants
Gepubliceerd: 11-8-2024 -
The Woman Who Resisted Mind Control
Gepubliceerd: 4-8-2024 -
The Children Whose Teeth Were Destroyed
Gepubliceerd: 29-7-2024 -
The Prisoners Used for Their Skin
Gepubliceerd: 21-7-2024 -
The Man with a Hole in His Stomach
Gepubliceerd: 14-7-2024 -
Introducing The Human Subject
Gepubliceerd: 5-7-2024
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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?