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  1. Medicine Through Time (1998)

    Subject
    History; Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 125 min., 1999 sale: £25.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    Series looking at how and why why factors such as religion, politics and war have affected the pace and nature of developments in medicine over time. Also celebrates the achievements of key figures in the...

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  2. Native American Medicine: Linking Traditional and Complementary Healing (2006)

    Producer
    Carol Gilbey
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £17.95

    Natural medicine is not new, the beginnings go back thousands of years to many different cultures and has been adapted over the years to our modern day complimentary therapies. It is possible to re-forge the...

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  3. Tibetan Medicine: An Introductory Lecture (1985 Video)

    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 120 min., 1997 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    Bhuddist monk and scholar Dr Rabgay Lobsang lectures in London in 1985 on the physical and mental principles behind Tibetan medicine, pointing out parallels he feels exist betwen Tibetan medicine and natural...

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  4. Chinese Medicine: A Taoist Approach to Health (2003)

    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 60m minutes), £14.99

    Evolving from a unique understanding of health and disease, Chinese Medicine looks at the connection between mind and body to determine treatment for illness. Treatments include acupuncture, herbal/dietary...

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  5. History of Medicine (1996 Multimedia)

    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    CD-ROM

    An interactive documentary telling the story of man’s struggle against disease, sickness and injury, looking at healthcare from the black death to AIDS, with accounts of doctors, surgeons, scientists,...

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  6. Knowledge of Healing, The (1999)

    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 89 minutes), £15.99

    The first full-length film dealing extensively with Tibetan medicine, which takes a highly developed, holistic approach to health through the use of herbs, roots and minerals. Includes interview with The...

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  7. Sleep of Death, The (1989 Video)

    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min.

    At the beginning of the century, a rapid number of discoveries revealed the cause of a tropical disease known as sleeping sickness. Depicts the imagined reminiscences of Sir Patrick Manson, the founder of...

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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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