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Pain has a profound effect on our bodies - when we are experiencing it, millions of nerve cells deep within our brains are firing - telling us 'it hurts' - and for centuries the challenge has been ...to find something that will lessen - or even switch off these sensations to bring us relief. In this programme we'll discover just what pain is, why we want to control it and how we ultimately did it, when the discovery of 'Morphine', the worlds first pharmaceutical at the beginning of the 19th Century led to a 200 year journey of scientific breakthrough, discovery and self experimentation.
Pain has a profound effect on our bodies - when we are experiencing it, millions of nerve cells deep within our brains are firing - telling us 'it hurts' - and for centuries the challenge has been ...to find something that will lessen - or even switch off these sensations to bring us relief. In this programme we'll discover just what pain is, why we want to control it and how we ultimately did it, when the discovery of 'Morphine', the worlds first pharmaceutical at the beginning of the 19th Century led to a 200 year journey of scientific breakthrough, discovery and self experimentation.
| Series: | Pain, pus and poison |
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| First transmission date: | 2013 |
| Published: | 2013 |
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| Duration: | 00:58:54 |
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| Producer: | Alex Freeman |
| Contributors: | Druin Burch; Michael Hayden; Austin Leach; Michael Mosley; Andrea Sella; Walter Sneader; Stephanie Snow; David Wilkinson |
| 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: | FKAA868F |
| Videofinder number: | 83544 |
| Available to public: | no |
