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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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Barefoot Doctors of Rural China (1975 Film)

Director

Diane Li

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Film (16mm)

An overview of Chinese medical care before 1976. Concentrates on rural China and demonstrates the effect of Mao Zedong’s June 1965 directive ‘in medical care put the emphasis on the countryside’....

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Acupuncture (1984 Video)

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Free loan to members, Videocassette. VHS. col. 18 min.

A practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine and two British doctors discuss acupuncture and give clinical demonstrations. Acupuncture is considered both from the scientific and clinical points of view.

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All Under Heaven: Life in a Chinese Village (1985 Video)

Director

Richard Gordon; Carma Hinton

Distribution

Hire or sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 58 min.

Looks at daily life in Long Bow, showing how the traditional way of life has been affected by political change, particulaly collectivisation and decollectivisation. An elaborate funeral is shown, and the...

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Sick to Death (2000)

Subject

Environmental science; Medical sciences

Distribution

VHS (PAL, 24 minutes), £30.00

Practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) have been a favourite target of the Western environmental movement which accuses TCM practitioners of endangering rare animal and plant species. As...

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Cancer Detectives of Lin Xian, The (1980 Video)

Producer

Edward Goldwyn

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

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

Lin Xian in north-central China is a 20 mile square area in which one out of four people die of cancer of the oesophagus - more than 100 times the normal rate. Shows how a team of scientists try to find the...

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Complementary Childcare: Coughs and Colds (2002)

aka: Complementary Kids: Coughs and Colds

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £14.99

A series originally shown on the Discovery Health Channel seeking to promote a greater understanding of the use of complementary therapies in treating a range of illnesses in children. Each programme deals...

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Healing Arts, The (1986 Video)

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 9 x 50 min., 1996 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) each 1996 sale: £225.00 (+VAT +p&p) series

Series on traditional, alternative and scientific methods of medicine around the world, considering their historical background and how they are practised today. 1: How herbalism has changed from a rural...

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Complementary Childcare: Dyslexia and Dyspraxia (2002)

aka: Complementary Kids: Dyslexia and Dyspraxia

Subject

Education; Medical sciences; Psychology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £14.99

A series originally shown on the Discovery Health Channel seeking to promote a greater understanding of the use of complementary therapies in treating a range of illnesses in children. Each programme deals...

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