Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (50 min) : sound, color with black and white sequences |
Summary |
Killer bugs like the plague, cholera and typhoid were all brought under control by adventuring self-experimenters, injecting and ingesting some of the most terrifying diseases known to man. The eminent Louis Pasteur flirted with self-experimentation when he asked his assistants to inject him with the rabies virus in his hunt for a vaccine against the terrifying disease. And in the early part of the 20th century, two American doctors injected themselves and their families with polio in a bitter race to produce a vaccine to halt its spread. Shows how, by infecting themselves with syphilis, yellow fever and cholera, doctors transformed our understanding of disease. He ends with Dr Barry Marshall, who recently won a Nobel Prize, thanks to a particularly courageous act of self-experimentation |
Credits |
Directed and produced by Hannah Robson and Helen Shariatmadari ; Series producer: Alison Gregory |
Performer |
Presenter: Michael Mosley |
Notes |
Originally produced : BBC Knowledge, 2006 |
Subject |
Diseases -- History.
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Infection -- History.
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Nosocomial infections -- Prevention -- History.
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Asepsis and antisepsis -- History.
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Medicine -- Research -- History.
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Self-experimentation in medicine -- History.
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Human experimentation in medicine -- History.
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Video recordings.
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Streaming video
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Author |
Robson, Hannah.
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Shariatmadari, Helen.
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Mosley, Michael, 1957-
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Informit EduTV
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BBC Knowledge
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