The Human Subject
Dr Adam Rutherford and Dr Julia Shaw investigate the threads connecting modern-day medicine to its often brutal origins.
Episodes (11 available)
Martha Milete’s life changes one night in 2006 when two masked men break into her house.
29 mins
Patient B-19 signs up to a treatment plan, hoping it will change his desire for men.
28 mins
It’s 2011 and Andemariam Beyene is out of options. One surgeon seems to provides hope.
28 mins
The story of a young boy's encounter with a Dr known as The Travelling Lobotomist
29 mins
Seventeen-year-old Anarcha has just had a baby, but there’s a problem.
28 mins
A farmer visits the town doctor and asks for a goat testicle transplant.
28 mins
At only 16 years old, Lana Ponting is court ordered to the infamous Allen Institute.
29 mins
Patients at a mental institution in Sweden are given excessive amounts of toffee.
29 mins
A young man unwittingly agrees to medical experimentation in a Philadelphia prison.
28 mins
A teenager is accidentally shot in the stomach. A doctor finds an opportunity.
28 mins