Afleveringen
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In The Human Subject, Dr Adam Rutherford and Dr Julia Shaw tell the story of Andemariam Beyene, an engineering student from Eritrea studying in Iceland. In 2011 he was desperate for a cure to the large tumour discovered in his trachea. He had tried surgery and radiotherapy and nothing had worked.
Dr Paolo Macchiarini, Karolinska Institute's star surgeon presents himself as Andemarian's best and last option. He proposes an experimental treatment - but one that has never been done before on a human being. Andemariam would be the first. Unfortunately, he agrees to it.
Julia and Adam speak with Karl-Henrik Grinnemo, a professor in cardiothoracic surgery at Uppsala University Hospital in Sweden, who was at Karolinska Institute during Paolo Macchiarini's tenure.
Presenters: Dr Adam Rutherford and Dr Julia ShawProducer: Simona RataAssistant Producer: Mansi VithlaniExecutive Producer: Jo MeekSound Design: Craig EdmondsonCommissioner: Dan Clarke
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This is the story of 12 year old Howard Dully. The year is 1960. His stepmother is finding him to be âunbelievably defiantâ so she takes him to a private California hospital. There he is evaluated by Dr Walter Freeman who diagnoses him with childhood schizophrenia.
For this he prescribes a brutal procedure which would alter Howardâs life forever - a lobotomy. Dr Freeman performed thousands of these operations across the United States, including on Rosemary Kennedy, JFKâs sister. Julia and Adam hear from Jack El-Hai, journalist, medical writer and author of The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness.
Presenters: Dr Adam Rutherford and Dr Julia ShawProducers: Rufaro Faith Mazarura and Simona Rata Assistant Producer: Mansi VithlaniExecutive Producer: Jo MeekSound Design: Craig EdmondsonCommissioner: Dan Clarke
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Zijn er afleveringen die ontbreken?
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In The Human Subject, Dr Adam Rutherford and Dr Julia Shaw investigate the threadsconnecting modern day medicine to its often brutal origins.
This is the story of a 17 year old enslaved girl - Anarcha - and the other enslaved women who gave birth to the field of gynaecology. The year is 1845 and Anarcha has just had a baby. But thereâs a problem. She is in great pain and her doctor, J Marion Sims, believes nothing can be done about it - at least at first.
She has developed a vesico-vaginal fistula, a hole between her bladder and her vagina. This leaves her incontinent and in the doctorâs words: âaside from death, this was about the worst accident that could have happened to the poor young girlâ. In search of a cure Anarcha would be experimented on 30 times. Julia and Adam hear from Dr Deirdre Cooper Owens, a professor at the University of Connecticut and the author of Medical Bondage: Race, Gender and the Origins of American Gynaecology.
Presenters: Dr Adam Rutherford and Dr Julia ShawProducers: Simona Rata and Rufaro Faith MazaruraAssistant Producer: Mansi VithlaniExecutive Producer: Jo MeekSound Design: Craig EdmondsonCommissioner: Dan Clarke
An Audio Always production for BBC Radio 4.
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In The Human Subject, Dr Adam Rutherford and Dr Julia Shaw investigate the historic threads connecting modern day medicine to its often brutal origins.
This is the story of a farmer from the small town of Milford, Kansas. The year is 1916 and the town has a population of only 200. The farmer is looking for a cure to his failing libido, so one day he decides to walk into the town doctorâs office and ask for help with his âflat tireâ.
The doctor, John R. Brinkley tells the farmer that heâd have no problem with his virility if he had the testicles of a goat. According to the legend, the farmer asks âWell, why donât you put âem in?â. Soon after the operation, a second man comes to see Brinkley, a man by the name of Bill Stittsworth. And so starts a series of similar transplants across the United States, leading to hope, joy, suffering and ultimately, death for many of the men who went under the small-town doctorâs knife. In this episode Julia and Adam hear from Pope Brock, author of Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam.
Presenters: Dr Adam Rutherford and Dr Julia ShawProducer: Simona RataAssistant Producer: Mansi VithlaniExecutive Producer: Jo MeekSound Design: Craig EdmondsonCommissioner: Dan Clarke
An Audio Always production for BBC Radio 4.
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Dr Adam Rutherford and Dr Julia Shaw investigate the threads connecting modern day medicine to its often brutal origins.
This is the story of 16 year old Lana Ponting. The year is 1958 and she has run away from home yet again. The police pick her up and a judge orders her to the infamous Allen Memorial Institute in Montreal, Canada.
There, she is met by Dr Ewen Cameron, a very famous psychiatrist. What neither Lana nor her parents knew is that Dr Cameronâs method of treatment was less than conventional and his work would soon attract the attention of the CIA and their mind control efforts. This is the story of Subproject 68 and MK Ultra. Julia and Adam hear from journalist John Marks, author of The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control. They also speak with Lana Ponting, one of the last living survivors of Dr Cameron's experiments at the Allen Institute.
Presenters: Dr Adam Rutherford and Dr Julia ShawProducer: Simona RataAssistant Producer: Mansi VithlaniExecutive Producer: Jo MeekSound Design: Craig EdmondsonCommissioner: Dan Clarke
An Audio Always production for BBC Radio 4
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In The Human Subject, Dr Adam Rutherford and Dr Julia Shaw investigate the threads connecting modern day medicine to its often brutal origins. With every episode they explore some of that dark history and ask - is our present day knowledge worth the suffering it took to get us here?
This is the story of the more than 600 patients at Vipeholm Hospital in Sweden who, in 1946, were enrolled in a set of unexpectedly dark studies now known as the âsugar experimentsâ.
They were devised and run by the Board of Medicine - without government knowledge or approval - and led to immeasurable pain for all those who took part, all in the name of public health.
Presenters: Dr Adam Rutherford and Dr Julia ShawProducer: Simona RataAssistant Producer: Mansi VithlaniExecutive Producer: Jo MeekSound Design: Craig EdmondsonCommissioner: Dan Clarke
An Audio Always production for BBC Radio 4
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Humanityâs journey to understanding the body has been a gory one, littered with unethical experiments, unintended consequences and unimaginable endurance.
In The Human Subject, Dr Adam Rutherford and Dr Julia Shaw investigate the threads connecting modern day medicine to its often brutal origins. With every episode they explore some of that dark history and ask - is our present day knowledge worth the suffering it took to get us here?
The year is 1964 and 20 year old Edward Anthony is being checked into Philadelphiaâs Holmesburg prison, also known as âThe Terrordomeâ, about to serve a 23-month sentence for dealing marijuana.
Only two weeks into being at the prison he agrees to the first of many medical experiments run by Dr Albert Kligman and the University of Pennsylvania dermatology department. This first experiment, a 'bubble bath test', leaves him feeling like his back is on fire. To his cellmates he yells, âItâs killing meâ. This is the story of Edward and hundreds of other prisoners who were exploited in this Philadelphia prison. in the pursuit of knowledge and for financial gain.
Presenters: Dr Adam Rutherford and Dr Julia ShawSeries Producer: Simona RataAssistant Producer: Mansi VithlaniExecutive Producer: Jo MeekSound Design: Craig EdmondsonCommissioner: Dan Clarke
An Audio Always production for BBC Radio 4
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Humanityâs journey to understanding the body has been a gory one; littered with unethical experiments, unintended consequences and unimaginable endurance. Itâs the story of catastrophic failures, at great human cost - but also successes which made history and saved countless lives.
In The Human Subject, Dr Adam Rutherford and Dr Julia Shaw investigate the threads connecting modern day medicine to its often brutal origins. With every episode they explore some of that dark history and ask - is our present day knowledge worth the suffering it took to get us here?
This is the story of 18-year-old Alexis St Martin who is accidentally shot in the stomach outside an American Fur Company store. The year is 1822, and the French-Canadian fur trapperâs chances of survival arenât high, but he defies the odds and lives.
Alexis heals in the most unusual way. His wound turns into a gastric fistula, a permanent hole in the side of his body - a hole that cannot be closed and one that leads straight into his stomach. The doctor who saves his life, William Beaumont, finds in the young manâs misfortune an opportunity.
Presenters: Dr Adam Rutherford and Dr Julia ShawProducer: Simona RataAssistant Producer: Mansi VithlaniExecutive Producer: Jo MeekSound Design: Craig EdmondsonCommissioner Editor: Dan Clarke
An Audio Always production for BBC Radio 4
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Dr Adam Rutherford & Dr Julia Shaw investigate humanityâs journey to understand the body, revealing stories that are littered with unethical experiments and unimaginable endurance