Dr Adam Rutherford & Dr Julia Shaw investigate humanity’s journey to understand the body, revealing stories that are littered with unethical experiments and unimaginable endurance

Dr Adam Rutherford & Dr Julia Shaw investigate humanity’s journey to understand the body, revealing stories that are littered with unethical experiments and unimaginable endurance

Dr Adam Rutherford &amp; Dr Julia Shaw investigate humanity’s journey to understand the body, revealing stories that are littered with unethical experiments and unimaginable endurance

Introducing The Human Subject

Humanity's journey to understanding the body has been a gory one; littered with unethical experiments, unintended consequences and unimaginable endurance. It's 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?

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Humanity's journey to understanding the body has been a gory one; littered with unethical experiments, unintended consequences and unimaginable endurance. It's 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?

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