Superhuman

Synopsis: 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 Natasha Bondy and David Hickman): how the body copes with trauma, showing war casualties, accident victims, and the results of cooling the body; 2) Spare Parts (director John Groom): transplant surgery, showing a hand transplant, a cochlear implant, a heart transplant, and a pig-brain cell transplant for Parkinson’s disease; 3) Self-Repair (producer/director Judith Bunting): How the body regenerates tissue and how doctors are exploring ways of using this process to help cure angina and to mend broken spinal cords.
4) Killers into Cures: looks at the thousands of microbes living on and inside the human body, from bacteria that cause life-threatening illnesses to viruses that can lead to devastating plagues; 5) The Enemy Within: focuses on cancer and follows three cancer patients as they try experimental new treatments.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video; Videocassette. VHS. col. 180 min.
Year of production: 2000
Availability: OUT OF DISTRIBUTION
Notes: Broadcast on BBC1 from 15/10/00.
Subjects: Medical sciences
Keywords: biomechanics; human biology; human organ transplant surgery; trauma