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Michael ends the series with a look at poisons, exploring the incredible turning points when we went from finding antidotes to poisons, to applying them as a cure - celebrating the eccentrics and m...avericks whose breakthroughs were to pave the way for some of the most striking treatments of modern medicine. Of the medicines explored in this series, those that are derived from poisons are perhaps the most extraordinary. The story of turning poisons into medicines encompasses the planet's most deadly substances, in which we turned killers into cures.
Michael ends the series with a look at poisons, exploring the incredible turning points when we went from finding antidotes to poisons, to applying them as a cure - celebrating the eccentrics and m...avericks whose breakthroughs were to pave the way for some of the most striking treatments of modern medicine. Of the medicines explored in this series, those that are derived from poisons are perhaps the most extraordinary. The story of turning poisons into medicines encompasses the planet's most deadly substances, in which we turned killers into cures.
| Series: | Pain, pus and poison |
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| First transmission date: | 2013 |
| Published: | 2013 |
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| Duration: | 00:58:50 |
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| Producer: | Giles Harrison |
| Contributors: | Druin Burch; Peter Campbell; John Fenn; Jayne Lawrence; Adam Mamelak; Michael Mosley; John Swann; John Whitaker |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Link to related site: | OU website: http://www.open.edu/openlearn/whats-on/tv/ou-on-the-bbc-pain-pus-and-poison |
| Production number: | FKAA867L |
| Videofinder number: | 83546 |
| Available to public: | no |
