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Spina Bifida - To Walk Again

Date released

1970

Series name

Tomorrow Today

Issue no

30

NoS ID

350910

Story no

4 / 4

COI synopsis: Until recently children suffering from Spina Bifida were doomed to life in a wheelchair or trolley. Now a new type of splint is making it possible for such children not only to stand but, in...

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Hydrocephalus: A Guide to Education (1991 Video)

Subject

Education

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 18 min.

Some simple educaiton strategies, particularly for handwriting and number work, for use with spina bifida and hydorcephalic children. Offers practical ways in which performance can be improved in a...

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Spinal bifida test ready for pilot (1978)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Keith Hampson MP on a pilot scheme involving a new type of testing for spina bifida. Hampson calls on the Government to consider the benefits of these tests. Male interviewer not identified...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

60 Minutes Archives, various items - nd [1975-1986]

60 Minutes Archives, various items. Track 1- Problems of Euro MPs; Basingstoke drama - pantomine horse. Track 3- News from the USA; Tracks 4 and 5- Parachutist and Spina Bifida. Track 6- BMW service. Track...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Mercy killing of 3 babies (1978)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Phyllis Bowman, Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child, on newspaper allegations suggesting that three babies in Nottingham in 1977 were given sedatives and deliberately underfed until...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Maternal Serum Screening: The Blood Test for Down’s Syndrome and Spina Bifida (1993 Video)

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 15 min.

Explains the advantages and disadvantages of serum screening for Down’s syndrome and spina bifida in order to provide couples expecting a baby with sufficient information to decide whether or not to have...

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Owen (1979 Video)

Subject

Education; Medical sciences

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w. 16 min.

Owen is one of three spina bifida sufferers currently attending Medecroft Opportunity Centre, Winchester. The programme shows him in a wide range of activities and includes excerpts from interviews with his...

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Discussions in Bioethics: Who Should Decide? (1986 Video)

Director

Beverly Shaffer

Producer

Wolf Koenig; Andy Thomson

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 14 min., 1996 sale: £29.50 (+VAT +p&p)

A short, open-ended drama designed to stimulate discussion of values and ethics in relation to modern medical technology. A pregnant woman spina bifida which keeps her confined to a wheelchair but who is...

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To Walk Again

Date released

1970

Series name

Living Tomorrow

Issue no

30

NoS ID

350907

Story no

5 / 5

COI synopsis: Until recently children suffering from Spina Bifida were doomed to life in a wheelchair or trolley. Now a new type of splint is making it possible for such children not only to stand but, in...

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Spiral Cage, The (1990 Video)

Director

Philip Haas

Producer

Philip Haas

Subject

English language and literature; Medical sciences

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1998 sale: £50.00 (inclusive)

Relates the story of how Al Davidson dealt with and overcame his spina bifida, and this became the subject of his acclaimed autobiographical comic book ‘The Spiral Cage’.

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