Ratings per Episode
Votes per Episode
Pain, Pus & Poison: The Search for Modern Medicines Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 8.4 | 8.4 | 8.6 | 8.2 |
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About
In this "entertaining medical series" (The Sunday Times, U.K.), Dr. Michael Mosley shows how drugs have revolutionized medicine and changed the course of human history. Unfolding over a period of 200 years, it's an extraordinary tale of daring, self-experimentation, revelation, genius, and outright luck.
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Season 12013
8.45733h
Michael Mosley tells the story of the creation of our most useful and valuable drugs.
| Ep | Title | Rating | Yours | Votes | Runtime | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▶ | 1 | Pain | 8.4 | 22 | 60 min | |
| ▶ | 2 | Pus | 8.6 | 19 | 60 min | |
| ▶ | 3 | Poison | 8.2 | 16 | 60 min |
Full Cast & Crew
Cast
Michael Mosley Self - Presenter
Druin Burch Self - Author 'Taking the Medicine'
Walter Sneader Self - Former Head of the School of Pharmacy, University of Strathclyde
Thomas Frieden Self - DIrector, Center for Disease Control and Prevention
John Whitaker Self - Wakefield Museum
Andrea Sella Self - Department of Chemistry, University College London
Jayne Lawrence Self - Royal Pharmaceutical Society
John Fenn Self - Yale University
Stephanie Snow Self - Centre for History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester
Jonathan Simon Self - Historian, University of Leon
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