# Body Shock

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{{short description|TV documentary series}}
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'''''Body Shock''''' (also: '''Bodyshock''') is a British medical [documentary](/source/Documentary_film) series about the conditions or lives of extraordinary people. It was originally produced by redback for [Channel 4](/source/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](/source/fetus_in_fetu) from [Kazakhstan](/source/Kazakhstan))
* ''[Wild Child](/source/Feral_child)'' ([Genie](/source/Genie_(feral_child)) from the United States, episode was also titled ''Wild Child: The Story of Feral Children'' in the United States)
* ''Anatomy of a [Shark Bite](/source/Shark_bite)''
* ''Riddle of the Elephant Man'' ([Joseph Merrick](/source/Joseph_Merrick) from the United Kingdom)
* ''The Man Who Ate his Lover'' ([Armin Meiwes](/source/Armin_Meiwes) from Germany)
* ''The Man Who Slept for 19 Years'' ([Terry Wallis](/source/Terry_Wallis) from the United States)
* ''Orgasmatron''
* ''The Girl with X-Ray Eyes'' ([Natasha Demkina](/source/Natasha_Demkina) from [Saransk](/source/Saransk), Russia)
* ''Megatumour'' (Lucica Bunghez from Romania and Matt Peperell from England)
* ''When [Anaesthesia](/source/Anaesthesia) Fails'' ([Anesthetic awareness](/source/Anesthetic_awareness))
* ''The Curse of the Mermaid'' ([Milagros Cerrón](/source/Milagros_Cerr%C3%B3n) from Peru, who was born with [Sirenomelia](/source/Sirenomelia))
* ''Half Ton Man'' ([Patrick Deuel](/source/Patrick_Deuel) from the United States)
* ''The 80-Year-old Children'' ([The Hussein family](/source/progeria) from India)
* ''Born with Two Heads'' ([Manar Maged](/source/craniopagus_parasiticus) from Egypt)
* ''The Boy in the Bubble'' ([David Vetter](/source/David_Vetter) from the United States)
* ''Kill Me to Cure Me'' ([Brett Kehrer](/source/Intracranial_aneurysm) from the United States)
* ''World's Biggest Boy'' ([Dzhambulat Khatokhov](/source/Dzhambulat_Khatokhov) from [Kabardino-Balkaria](/source/Kabardino-Balkaria), Russia)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.channel4.com/programmes/bodyshock/episode-guide/series-7/episode-1|title=World's Biggest boy|access-date=25 January 2010|archive-date=26 January 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100126051517/http://www.channel4.com/programmes/bodyshock/episode-guide/series-7/episode-1|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* ''Half Ton Mum''
* ''The Girl with Eight Limbs'' ([Lakshmi Tatma](/source/Lakshmi_Tatma) from [Bihar](/source/Bihar), India)
* ''I am the Elephant Man'' ([Huang Chuncai](/source/Huang_Chuncai) from China)
* ''The Girl with Two Faces'' (Lali Kumar from India)
* ''Half Ton Son'' (Billy Robbins from [Houston](/source/Houston), Texas, United States)
* ''Two Foot Tall Teen'' ([Jyoti Amge](/source/Jyoti_Amge), from [Nagpur](/source/Nagpur), India)
* ''Age 8 and Wanting a Sex Change''
* ''The Girl Who Cries Blood'' ([Twinkle Dwivedi](/source/Twinkle_Dwivedi) from [Lucknow](/source/Lucknow), India)
* ''Our Daughter, the Mermaid'' (Shiloh Pepin from Maine)
* ''The Twins Who Share A Brain'' ([Krista and Tatiana Hogan](/source/Krista_and_Tatiana_Hogan) from [Vernon](/source/Vernon%2C_British_Columbia), Canada)
* ''Dad's Having a Baby'' (Thomas and Scott Moore from California, US)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.channel4.com/programmes/bodyshock/episode-guide/series-24/episode-1|title=Dad's Having a Baby|work=BodyShock|publisher=Channel 4|accessdate=2011-12-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130724013013/http://www.channel4.com/programmes/bodyshock/episode-guide/series-24/episode-1|archive-date=2013-07-24|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* ''The 27 Inch Man'' (Edwardo Hernandez)
* ''Turtle Boy''
* ''World's Tallest Man'' ([Sultan Kösen](/source/Sultan_K%C3%B6sen) from Turkey)
* ''The Man with the 10-Stone Testicles'' ([Wesley Warren, Jr.](/source/Wesley_Warren%2C_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](/source/Oesophageal_atresia))

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb title|0990536}}

Category:2003 British television series debuts
Category:2014 British television series endings
Category:2000s British documentary television series
Category:2010s British documentary television series
Category:Channel 4 documentary series
Category:English-language British television shows
Category:British medical television series

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