By: BBC

Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery is a BBC documentary series presented by Michael Mosley, looking at the brutal, bloody and dangerous history of surgery. The series consists of five episodes, each of which looks at the development of a different branch of surgery: brain surgery, heart surgery, transplant surgery, plastic surgery, and trauma surgery. Following the story of surgery, the series reveals today's astonishing surgical breakthroughs that make face transplants, limb transplants and a host of other previously undreamed of operations possible.