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To Taste a Hundred Herbs: Gods, Ancestors and Medicine in a Chinese Village (1986 Video)

Director

Richard Gordon; Carma Hinton

Subject

Archaeology

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 58 min.

The setting is Long Bow, a village 400 miles southwest of Beijing. Focuses on one family - the village doctor’s - and integrates the lives of individuals with larger issues. Dr Shen, a Roman Catholic,...

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On Leprosy (1987 Video)

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 6 min.

The library at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine contains many rare and beautiful books, some of them very fragile. The video shows a selection of colour illustrations from one of them,...

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Challenges Facing Academic Medicine, The (1998 Video)

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS (PAL). col. 30 min., 2000 sale: US$166.65 (+p&p)

Dr Eugene Bauer, Dean of the School Medicine at Stanford University, discusses the challenges facing academic medicine in a rapidly changing health care environment.

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Plastics In Medicine

Date released

1969

Series name

Calendar

Issue no

280

NoS ID

324224

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Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

Date released

Jul 1970

Series name

Parade

Issue no

80

NoS ID

352690

Story no

4 / 7

COI synopsis: Research by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine into such widespread diseases as malaria, filariasis and bilharzia.

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What is Love? (1995 Television)

Series

Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman

Director

Daniel Attias

Television western drama series about the exploits of Dr Michaela (Mike) Quinn, a refined doctor who moves from the civilised world of mid-19th century Boston to a frontier town in Colorado to start her own...

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Tibetan Medicine: A Buddhist Approach to Healing (1985 Video)

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 35 min., 1997 sale: £17.95 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Tibet’s first woman physician, the late Ama Lopsang Dolma, shows how medicines are made from animal, vegetable and mineral substances and how acupuncture and moxibustion (burning the herb moxa on the skin...

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Rotadose

Date released

1973

Series name

Living Tomorrow

Issue no

125

NoS ID

325531

Story no

3 / 4

COI synopsis: A medicine dispenser for the blind - a simple device which screws on to the end of a medicine bottle and provides the equivalent of a teaspoonful every time.

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Asthma 3 (1998 Video)

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 56 min., 2000 sale: £31.45 (+VAT +p&p)

Follows eight people in their search for non-drug therapies to treat their asthma. Shows practitioners treating them, and presents the views of others in the field of complementary medicine. Covers...

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Child Health (1995 Multimedia)

Subject

Psychology

Distribution

CD-ROM

Cross-discipline shell package incorporating a variety of expertise relating to child development.

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