BUFVC Search
Current Search
Previous Searches
A three-part series in which Dr Michael Mosley explores the brutal history of experimental psychology. Part 1: MIND CONTROL - The first programme is concerned with how psychology has been applied in terms...
Dr Michael Mosley tells the story of how the world’s most useful and valuable drugs were created. The most poisonous toxin known to man, Botulinum, is now used as an anti-wrinkle drug called Botox. Yet it...
Stories of people whose cancers have disappeared without treatment and the doctors who think they know why. Many patients could perhaps benefit from a new treatment of the disease, based on the premise that...
Looks at the lives of children affected by severe combined immuno-deficiency (SCID), a genetic disease that prevents babies from fighting infections. Two years eariler, a revolutionary operation proved frot...
Neonaticide, the killing of newborn babies by their mothers, who try to conceal their pregnancies, give birth unassisted and abandon or smother the babies. Two women describe why they killed their babies,...
'The first casualty when war comes is truth ...', and this film shows how British people at home were reluctant to believe the stories of Nazi atrocities, having been fooled once before when World War 1...
Science has spent more than 50 years trying to understand the mind of murderers to find out in which ways they are different to the rest of us. This BBC documentary looks at the latest research to see the...
Profiles Dr Polly Matzinger and her idea of the ‘danger model’ in biology, which has led to a man’s cancer being injected with bacteria and a mouse living with a rat’s heart. Matzinger believes that...
Investigates the Buteyko method, a controversial drug-free treatment for asthma developed by Russian professor Konstantin Pavlovich Buteyko, who claims that many asthma symptoms are caused by...
A series of five 50-minute programmes on the history of surgery, presented by Dr Michael Mosley. He introduces audiences to the breathtaking, heroic and at times comically entertaining story of how surgeons...
Related searches have been automatically generated using the OpenCalais semantic analysis service.
Learning on Screen
Related searches have been automatically generated using the OpenCalais semantic analysis service.
Related searches have been automatically generated using the OpenCalais semantic analysis service.