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Food Protection: Poison or Pleasure? (1995 Video)

aka: Food: Poison or Pleasure?: The Family Food Protection Plan

Director

Allan Kingsbury

Subject

Health & safety

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1997 sale: £14.99 (inclusive) retail

Information and advice on the main food-poisoning bacteria, including campylobacter, salmonella and listeria. Looks at personal protection, food purchase, transit, storage and preparation. Discusses the...

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Poison That Waits (1988 Video)

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Examines a theory on the cause of senility, Parkinson’s disease and paralysis that has been developed in the Pacific, claiming that these conditions are caused by toxins found in food, particulary cyad toxin.

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Vital Poison, A (1993 Video)

Producer

Tim Haines

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

How researchers discovered that a lethal gas, nitric oxide, was behind some of the most basic functions of the human body. It is manufactured in cells and involved in functions from blood pressure control to...

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Vietnam: Battle’s Poison Cloud (2005)

Subject

History; Law

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 53 minutes), £50.00

The use of agent orange during the Vietnam war guaranteed an enduring legacy. Three generations of people are still being born with defects and genetic abnormalities. ‘I try hard to improve our life but we...

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Agent Orange: Policy of Poison (1988 Video)

Producer

Katy Ferguson; Rod Iveson; Nina Ward

Subject

Environmental science; History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min.

Through use of archive and newsreel footage, interviews and narration documents the widepsread use of chemical warfare in South Vietnam between 1961 and 1971. The tape also draws attention to the use of 245T...

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Portrait of a Poison (1980 Video)

Subject

Chemistry; Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 55 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Examines the dangers of dioxin, a by-product in the manufacture of certain herbicides such as Agent Orange and the weedkiller 245T. Four thousand times more poisonous than arsenic, dioxin attacks the cells...

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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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Weapons: A Battle for Humanity (1995 Video)

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: Sfr30.00 (+p&p)

Shows the suffering that has been caused by specific types of weapons, what has been done in the past to ban such weapons as dum-dum bullets and poison gas, and what must still be done through international...

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Uncle Poison (1998 Video)

aka: Tio Veneno

Director

Ricardo Leizaola

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 2000 sale: £25.00 (inclusive)

A portrait of a traditional faith healer, set against the backdrop of his community’s Easter celebrations in modern Caracas, Venezuela. Shows the role of healer Benito Reyes as mediator between the social,...

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Teaching Political Awareness Through Drama (1982 Video)

Subject

Drama; Education

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard forats. col. 57 min., 1996 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

A condensation of a project directed by Dorothy Heathcote. With the overall objective of enabling a class of 12-year-olds to understand and experience the acquisition and the workings of political power in a...

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