Body Shock (2003)

Genre

documentary television program

Country

United Kingdom

Length

15 seasons, 38 episodes

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A documentary series about people with rare medical conditions. Each episode focuses on a specific case, like a boy with a parasitic twin or a man who survived a shark bite. It explains their situations without sensationalizing.

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What happens

Body Shock (also: Bodyshock) is a British medical documentary series about the conditions or lives of extraordinary people. It was originally produced by redback for Channel 4 in the UK, but in September 2006, it was taken over by ArkMedia. There have been three series since December 2003. The Boy Who Gave Birth to His Twin (Alamjan Nematilaev from Kazakhstan) Wild Child (Genie from the United States, episode was also titled Wild Child: The Story of Feral Children in the United States) Anatomy of a Shark Bite Riddle of the Elephant Man (Joseph Merrick from the United Kingdom) The Man Who Ate his Lover (Armin Meiwes from Germany) The Man Who Slept for 19 Years (Terry Wallis from the United States) Orgasmatron The Girl with X-Ray Eyes (Natasha Demkina from Saransk, Russia) Megatumour (Lucica Bunghez from Romania and Matt Peperell from England) When Anaesthesia Fails (Anesthetic awareness) The Curse of the Mermaid (Milagros Cerrón from Peru, who was born with Sirenomelia) Half Ton Man (Patrick Deuel from the United States) The 80-Year-old Children (The Hussein family from India) Born with Two Heads (Manar Maged from Egypt) The Boy in the Bubble (David Vetter from the United States) Kill Me to Cure Me (Brett Kehrer from the United States) World's Biggest Boy (Dzhambulat Khatokhov from Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia) Half Ton Mum The Girl with Eight Limbs (Lakshmi Tatma from Bihar, India) I am the Elephant Man (Huang Chuncai from China) The Girl with Two Faces (Lali Kumar from India) Half Ton Son (Billy Robbins from Houston, Texas, United States) Two Foot Tall Teen (Jyoti Amge, from Nagpur, India) Age 8 and Wanting a Sex Change The Girl Who Cries Blood (Twinkle Dwivedi from Lucknow, India) Our Daughter, the Mermaid (Shiloh Pepin from Maine) The Twins Who Share A Brain (Krista and Tatiana Hogan from Vernon, Canada) Dad's Having a Baby (Thomas and Scott Moore from California, US) The 27 Inch Man (Edwardo Hernandez) Turtle Boy World's Tallest Man (Sultan Kösen from Turkey) The Man with the 10-Stone Testicles (Wesley Warren, Jr. from the United States) The Girl who Never Ate (Tia McCarthy from the United Kingdom, who suffered from and received corrective surgery for Oesophageal atresia) (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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