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Modern Day Nightingales

Date released

1978

Series name

London Line

Issue no

566

NoS ID

326856

Story no

1 / 1

COI synopsis: Nurses aren’t what they used to be. In many areas of modern medicine they have swapped the old Florence Nightingale image for that of a highly skilled medical technician. London Line visits...

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Bodyscan (1996 Video)

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. ? min., 1996 sale: £40.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Documents the Technophobia Conference, which explored the dangers and power of new technology to organise society and personal identity. Modern digital technologies have transformed medical practice, but are...

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Artificial blood development (1979)

Genre

Interview

Interview with a male medical spokesman (not identified) about the development of artificial blood and its possible use in blood transfusions. Female interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

IRN Review of 1984 - nd [1984]

IRN Review of 1984 - nd [1984]. Some reports also on AV769/653/S1, Track 5. Miners dispute. Bombing of Grand Hotel Brighton during Tory Party Conference. Discontent within Tory Party: proposed aboltion of...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

First successful hole in the heart operation using new technology (1989)

Genre

News report; Interview

Nigel Wrench reporting on the first successful operation to close a hole in the heart using new technology which avoids the need for major open heart surgery under general anaesthetic. Cardiologist Ray...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Hillsborough coma victim allowed to die (1993)

Genre

Interview

Angela Rippon live telephone interview, on her FM Drivetime show, with doctor Jim Rowe at Airedale General Hospital, following the withdrawal of life prolonging treatment and subsequent death of his patient...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Discussions in Bioethics: The Old Person’s Friend (1986 Video)

Director

Annie O’Donoghue

Producer

Wolf Koenig; Andy Thomson

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 13 min., 1996 sale: £29.50 (+VAT +p&p)

A short, open-ended drama designed to stimulate discussion of values and ethics in relation to modern medical technology. An elderly woman, bedridden and with a history of stroke, refuses medical attention...

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Bionic Woman, The (1998 Video)

Producer

Mike Tomlinson

Subject

Medical sciences; Technology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £65.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Eight years earily Julie Hill was paralysed from the wait down in a car crash, but she was subsequently chosen to become the first paitent ever to receive electronic implants that might help her to walk...

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Picture of Health (1995 Video)

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

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Syringe Driver in Symptom Control, The (1988 Video)

Producer

Ian Kelso

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 9 min., 1999 sale: £50.00 (inclusive)

Discusses the continuous administration of drugs by slow subcutaneous infusion using the Graseby syringe driver.

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