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  1. Body Parts Business, The (1993 Video)

    Director
    Judy Jackson
    Producer
    Judy Allder; Judy Jackson; Marie Natanson
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 63 min.

    Investigates the world-wide and lucrative market in human organs for transplant. People, mostly children, are said to be kidnapped and quickly operated on, disappearing without a trace. When they do...

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  2. Transplanting Hope (2018)

    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 60 minutes), $19.99

    This programme takes the viewer inside the operating room to witness the emotional, high-stakes process of transferring organs from donors to recipients. Meet families navigating both sides of the transplant...

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  3. Knife to the Heart (4 Parts) (1996 Video)

    Producer
    Tony Stark
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 4 x 50 min., 2000 sale: £180.00 (+VAT +p&p) series

    Series looking at the history of transplant surgery. 1: Tells how surgeons worked for over half a century beforethey discovered how to transplant a human organ, with many of the early patients dying withing...

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  4. Change of Heart, A (1993 Video)

    Director
    Colin Luke; Leanne Pooley
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 40 min., 1996 sale: £65.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at attempts to create transgenic pigs for organ transplants to humans and the moral and ethical dilemmas involved. Includes reactions from animal rights activists who are violently opposed to such...

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  5. Test Tube Bodies (1995 Video)

    Producer
    Andrew Thompson
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1996 sale: £65.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    New research in tissue engineering: scientists in the USA have produced a human ear. Human organs such as livers, kidneys and even hearts may be one day grown from samples of the patient’s own cells for...

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  6. Superhuman (2000 Video)

    Director
    Natasha Bondy; Judith Bunting; John Groom; David Hickman
    Producer
    David Hickman
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 180 min.

    Six programmes in which Professor Robert Winston investigates the human body’s mechanisms for healing and renewing itself, using techniques including micro-photography and morphing: 1) Trauma (directors...

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  7. Dying to Live (2011)

    Director
    Lance Lipman
    Subject
    Medical sciences; Social welfare
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 60 minutes), $248.00

    Every day in the U.S. about twenty people die waiting for transplant organs, because there are not enough donors. DYING TO LIVE, produced over eighteen months, tells the stories of four hopeful organ...

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  8. Understanding Bone Marrow Transplantation (1984 Film)

    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Aims to keep doctors who care for patients with serious blood diseases abreast of the latest developments in the field of bone marrow transplantation.

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  9. Mend Me: A Horizon Guide to Transplants (2013)

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

    Using examples taken from the ‘Horizon’ archive, Michael Mosley examines the history of surgical transplant techniques identifying key points, looking at pioneering surgeons, covering ethical questions...

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  10. Breath of Life (2000 Video)

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

    Traces the Loughran family’s experience of cystic fibrosis, which threatens the life of 15-year-old Sheila, who could be helped by living donor lung transplatation, using parts of two sibling’s lungs....

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