Pain, pus & poison / A BBC Open University partnership ; produced and directed by Alex Freeman, Ben Crichton, and Giles Harrison ; series producer, Steve Crabtree.

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. In three episodes, Mosley recounts how humans have learned...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors:	British Broadcasting Corporation (Production company) Open University (Production company) Athena (Firm) (Distributor) RLJ Entertainment (Distributor)
Other Authors:	Freeman, Alex (Producer) (Television director, Television producer) Crabtree, Steve (Television producer) (Television producer) Crichton, Ben (Director, Television producer) Harrison, Giles, 1974- (Television director, Television producer) Mosley, Michael, 1957- (Host)
Language:	English
Language of the Original:	English
Language and/or Writing System:	English audio with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Published:	[Silver Spring, Maryland] : Athena, Distributed by RLJ Entertainment, [2014] ; [Chatsworth, California] : [2014]
Edition:	Widescreen.
Series:	Rovi Media Collection. Movies. Rovi K-12 education materials.
Subjects:	Medicine > History. Pharmaceutical industry > History. History of Medicine. Drug Discovery > history. Drug Industry > history. Analgesics > history. Anti-Infective Agents > history. Materia Medica > history. Medicine. Pharmaceutical industry. Science television programs. Documentary television programs. Nonfiction television programs. Television programs > Great Britain. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. History.
Genre:	Science television programs. Documentary television programs. Nonfiction television programs. Television programs Video recordings for the hearing impaired. History.
Physical Description:	2 videodiscs (approximately 156 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 viewer's guide (13 pages : illustrations, maps ; 15 cm)
Variant Title:	Pain, pus and poison. Story of medicine, pain, pus and poison. Pain, pus & poison: the search for modern medicines.
Format:	Video DVD

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