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Great Treasure House, A (1973 Film)

Director

Felix Greene

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Traditional medicine in China, including acupuncture. Applications of old methods side by side with modern Western medicine.*

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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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Complementary Childcare: Fear and Anxiety (2002)

aka: Complementary Kids: Fear and Anxiety

Subject

Medical sciences; Psychology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (60 minutes), £14.99

A series originally shown on the Discovery Health Channel seeking to promote a greater understanding of the use of complementary therapies in treating a range of illnesses in children. Each programme deals...

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Alternative Medicine - Complete Series (2006)

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £15.00

A 3-part BBC series produced in conjunction with The Open University following Professor Kathy Sykes on her quest to find out why science is starting to respond to the centuries-old phenomenon of...

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Management of Pain, The (1999 Video)

Producer

Fiona Jackson

Subject

Medical sciences; Psychology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1999 sale: £150.00 (+VAT +p&p) higher education - master tape for re-editing and copying 2000 sale: £35.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) VHS, higher education

An introduction to pain management. Looks at three types of drugs and their uses: non-steriodal anti-inflammatory drugs, anaesthetics, and opiates. Also examines a number of non-drug therapies including...

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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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China: A Network of Communes (1977 Film)

Producer

Jens Bjerre

Subject

Geography

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Shows rural and urban collective life in China as it existed before reforms drastically changed the commune structure. Shows communal organisation in a textile factory, the handling of childcare, birth...

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Barefoot Doctors of Rural China (1975 Film)

Director

Diane Li

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Film (16mm)

An overview of Chinese medical care before 1976. Concentrates on rural China and demonstrates the effect of Mao Zedong’s June 1965 directive ‘in medical care put the emphasis on the countryside’....

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Principles of Tibetan Medicine, The (1985 Video)

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 300 min., 1997 sale: £57.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

In Rikon, Switzerland, Dr Tenzin Choedak, personal physician to the Dalai Lama gives a series of three talks covering the underlying causes of illness, diagnosis and treatment in traditional Buddhist...

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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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