Would you be prepared to risk your own health for the benefit of others? For centuries scientists have been prepared to take terrible risks with their own safety – all for the sake of medical knowledge. As a result we now have morphine, cardiac surgery and many other life-saving medicines. But in today’s safety first world, the scientific authorities are starting to discourage human self-experimentation. Will this block medical progress – or should we let scientists decide how far they want to go? Self-Experimenters follows the stories of some of the world’s most committed scientists, who all use their own bodies and minds as the subjects of their trail-blazing and courageous experiments. Startling footage shows just how close to the edge they are prepared to go.