BBC's "Anaesthesia Mavericks"

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Animals and lab tests can only take you so far - in the end you have to experiment on people. But who would want to go first? Award-winning journalist and former doctor Michael Mosley exposes the curious, gruesome and sometimes fatal ways in which scientists have transformed medical knowledge by using themselves as guinea pigs.

Michael reveals how pain-free surgery became possible because of self-experimenters like Humphrey Davy and Sigmund Freud. He also experiences for himself some of what they went through and watches a modern day self experimenter in action.