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All Episodes

The Cadaver's Lessons — 36 episodes

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1

Organ Transplants: The Science of Second Chances

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2

Case File: Utah State Training School

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3

Huntington’s Disease: When Genetics Becomes Destiny

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4

Case File: The Tuskegee Syphilis Study

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Syphilis: The Great Imitator

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Case File: Typhoid Mary

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7

Before Soap: How Medicine Spread Disease

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Case File: The Freedom House Ambulance Service

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The Birth of EMS: From War Zones to City Streets

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10

Case File: Jeanna Giese

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11

If You Develop Symptoms, You Die: Rabies

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12

Case File: The Leper King

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13

Marked Untouchable: The Truth About Leprosy

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14

Case File: From Slave to Saint, St. Patrick

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15

The Bread The Caused Hallucinations, Gangrene, and Witch Trials: Ergot

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16

Case File: Vietnam, Nurses, and Flutter Valves

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17

Crack the Chest: The Evolution of Chest Tubes

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18

Case File: King George III

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19

Porphyria: The Original Vampire Myth

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20

Case File: Blood Transfusions Turn Criminal

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21

Transfused: Experiments, Scandals, and Survival

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22

Case File: The Great Leech Craze

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23

Bad Blood: When Medicine Drained the Patient

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24

Case File: The Ray Brothers - The Children America Turned On

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25

HIV & AIDS: Activism, Accountability, and the Fight Forward (Part 2)

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26

Case File: The Tainted Blood Scandals

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27

HIV & AIDS: Medicine, Misinformation, and the Cost of Stigma

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28

Case File: Polio 1916 - A Quarantined Summer

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29

When Viruses Stole Childhood: Polio’s Medical Legacy

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30

Case File: ECT & The Nazis

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31

Charged: Inside Electroconvulsive Therapy

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32

Case File: 5 Lobotomy Horror Cases

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33

Unwired: The Lobotomy Legacy

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34

Case File: Amanda Feilding

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35

Trepanation: What’s a little hole in the skull?

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36

Welcome to the Table

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