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  1. First Fourteen Days, The (1990 Video)

    Producer
    Vivienne King
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at fertility treatment and the debate on the ethical controversy surrounding human embryo experimentation. Also asks whether the scientific research in this field may become a criminal offence.

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  2. Emerging talent (Part 1)

    Date
    11 Aug 2014, 16:47
    Author
    Gabriel Hernandez
    Post Type
    Post

    In the wake of the interest around Film4 productions such as Richard Ayoade’s Submarine and Joe Cornish’s Attack the Block, a recent Guardian article by Jane Graham identifies what she sees as a...

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  3. Milk Ejection Reflex, The (1972 Film)

    Director
    G W Harris
    Producer
    Dennis Duerden
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Based on years of experimentation to determine how milk is secreted from the mammary gland, the film shows the chemical mechanism involved: electrical stimulation of the nerve supply to the posterior...

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  4. Everest: Doctors in the Death Zone (2008)

    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £195.00

    Imagine being short of oxygen, fighting for breath, your lungs filling with fluid, brain swelling, struggling to stay alive. This is what it feels like to a patient in intensive care as they struggle to get...

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  5. Brain Puzzle, The (1985)

    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £195.00

    Looks at research into ways of repairing a damaged brain. Victims of Parkinson’s Disease are normally treated with the drug L-dopa, which replaces dopamine, the chemical absent in the sufferer’s brain....

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  6. Berlin (2009)

    Subject
    History; Languages
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 176 minutes), £18.00

    Journalist Matt Frei, who was born in Germany, was sent by the BBC to Berlin in 1989 to report on the fall of the Berlin Wall. Twenty years later, he returned to the city and over the course of three...

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  7. 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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  8. Science Is Fiction: The Films of Jean Painlevé

    Date
    2 Jun 2014, 07:57
    Author
    Sergio Angelini
    Post Type
    BUFVC Article

    Jean Painlevé (1902-1989) was one of the pioneers in the development of scientific cinema and was one of its great popularisers. Oliver Gaycken, Assistant Professor at University of Maryland looks at the...

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  9. New film & TV books in October

    Date
    18 Oct 2012, 17:11
    Author
    Sergio Angelini
    Post Type
    BUFVC Review

    Behind the Scenes at the BBFC: Film Classification from the Silver Screen to the Digital Age Edited by Edward Lamberti (foreword by Mark Kermode) (BFI/Palgrave Macmillan, 23 Nov 2012), 256 pages ISBN:...

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