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Designer Babies and Gene Robbery (2011)

Director

Bertram Verhaag; Gabriele Kröber

Subject

Biology; Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £50.00

A balanced look at the degree to which science can alter our genetic makeup. There is a danger that simplistic thinking could assume that there is a gene for something like homosexuality, whereas science is...

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Cline Affair, The (1982 Video)

Subject

Biology; Philosophy

Distribution

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

American haematologist Martin Cline was the first doctor to perform a genetic engineering experiment on a human being and was disciplined by the establishment. The programme explores the ethical and moral...

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Unusual Suspects, The (2000 Video)

Subject

Medical sciences; Social welfare

Distribution

Sale, DVD (PAL, 29 minutes), £34.99

Explores the way society and science - both medical and social - have variously constructed disability as medical, natural and social, and what implications this has for both disabled people and society as a...

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Agribusiness (1992 Video)

Subject

Agriculture

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at a applications of genetic science in cereal, vegetable and pig farming. Explains the process of breeding improved disease-resistant wheat for bread-making, and shows the growth and storage of...

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Is Gm Safe? (2000 Video)

Producer

Adrian Pennink

Subject

Agriculture; Biology

Distribution

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

As early as 1974, some scientists were expressing grave concerns over research into genetic engineering. Now some of these same scientists believe that genetically modified foods are safe and a possible...

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Manipulating Dna (1994 Video)

Producer

E J Wood

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 60 min., 1995 sale: £60.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at the techniques of genetic engineering used to produce new combinations of genetic material not normally found in nature and the incorporation of this new genetic material into a host organism for...

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Potatoes (1994 Video)

Director

Suzanne Campbell-Jones

Producer

Bob Thorpe

Subject

Agriculture

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Notes the importance of potatoes in the human diet and the world economy, and looks at how scientists are using genetically engineering better, sweeter, and disease-resistant crops.

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Biology at War (1984 Video)

Subject

Technology

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 115 min.

2 (55 min): Explores the history of biological warfare from World War 2 until 1969, when President Nixon renounced American use of biological weapons, and examines current research in the West. Notes that...

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Life and Death in the 21st Century (1999)

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, 2000 sale: £150.00 (VAT +p&p) series

Series analysing three key issues in the future of medicine, with individual programmes looking at: 1) Living Forever: the biological mechanism behind the ageing process; 2) Future Plagues: new devastiating...

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Scientists Under Attack (2011)

aka: Gekaufte Wahrheit

Director

Bertram Verhaag

Subject

Agriculture; Biology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 88 minutes), 19.90 euros (D)

Árpád Pusztai and Ignacio Chapela have two things in common. - they are distinguished scientists and their careers are in ruins. Both scientists chose to look at the phenomenon of genetic engineering. Both...

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