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Treatment of Pressure Sores (1984 Multimedia)

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Hire Sale, Audiocassette. 29 min.; 42 slides. col.

Rapid natural healing can be encouraged by meticulous relief of pressure and avoidance of injurious local applications. Emphasises limited need for antibiotics and the deleterious effect of anti-inflammatory...

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Drug Trial That Went Wrong, The (2006)

Director

Karen Edwards

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £20.00

An investigation into the drug trial performed in at a private unit in London’s Northwick Park Hospital in March 2006 on behalf of a small German drug company. After being given an experimental...

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Neuromuscular Junction (2 Parts) (1979 Multimedia)

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

out of distribution, Audiocassette. 2 x 23 min.; 49, 55 slides. col.

1: The physiology of neuromuscular transmission: outline of basic structure; electrical events during rest and transmission vesicle release; effects of ACh on postsynaptic membrane; action potential...

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Follow the Yellow Brick Road (1972 Video)

Director

Rod Graham

Producer

Alan Bridges

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 70 min., 1999 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Dennis Potter’s play in which a disturbed television actor overwhelmed with disgust at the misery of life takes refuge in the false security of psychiatry and anti-depressant drugs, knowing that they only...

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Birth of a Drug, The (1990 Video)

Producer

Nick Watson

Subject

Chemistry

Distribution

DVD (PAL, 24 minutes), £34.99

What are the decisions that have to be made during the research and development stages of drug manufacture. How do pharmaceutical researchers start when manufacturing drugs? Why do they choose to work on one...

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Cruel Choice, The (1984 Video)

Producer

Fanny Prior; Sophy Robinson

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min.

Questions whether animal experiments are essential. Professor Zbinden, Director of the Toxicology Unit of Zurich University, is developing more sensitive toxicology tests to replace LD50. The Fund for the...

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Breaking the Cycle: Children with Behaviour Problems

Subject

Social welfare

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 50 minutes), £16.95

Features a group of disruptive children during a ten-day programme - involving parents - structured over ten weeks at Marlborough House Day Unit, Swindon (funded by the National Health; and one of only a...

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American Supermarket (6 Parts) (1991 Video)

Producer

Davide Ferrario

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Out of Distribution

Industrial films, old commercials, documentaries, educational films, and army training films are used humourously to portray the American dream of the 1940s and 1950s. Shows the mass culture of a period that...

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Power to the People: British Music Videos 1966-2016 (2018)

aka: British Music Video 1966-2016

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 900 minutes), £32.99

This DVD collection, which contains 200 of the most influential music videos produced in Britain, is the result of a three-year university research project in partnership with the British Library and the...

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Pain, Pus and Poison (2013)

Director

Ben Crichton; Alex Freeman

Producer

Ben Crichton

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £34.99

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...

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