Nobel’s Greatest Hits: Medicine

Alternative title

Understand Medicine: Nobel’s Greatest Hits Explained

Synopsis

Five programmes from the series NOBEL’S GREATEST HITS on topics relating to medicine and one on Nobel himself. Each 10-minute programme gives a clear explanation of a major advance in medicine.

Series

Nobel’s Greatest Hits

Language

English

Country

Great Britain

Year of release

2003

Year of production

2001

Notes

Each part available separately on video from York Films

Subjects

Medical sciences

Keywords

antibiotics; bacteriology; blood; genetics; history of medicine; medical physics; nervous system; Nobel, Alfred; Nobel Prize winners; medical images

Distribution Formats

Type

DVD

Format

Region 2 PAL

Price

£15.99

Availability

Sale

Duration/Size

60 minutes

Year

2005

Sections

Title

Battling the bugs

Synopsis

Looks at Nobel Prizewinners in the fields of disease, bacteria and viruses. Areas covered include the discovery of immunisation and antibiotics; the control of polio, TB and diptheria; how our immune system works; the way sneezes spread diseases; the identification of prions in the brain diseases of BSE and scrapie in animals and kuru and CJD in humans.

Duration

10 mins

Title

Code breakers

Synopsis

Looks at human genetics, how heredity works and the work of the Nobel Prizewinners who cracked our genetic code. Covers subjects from chromosomes and genes to the Double Helix and the Human Genome; what makes us male and female; why the gene for brown eyes dominates that for blue; how conditions like colour-blindness and haemophilia are inherited; and the way genetic engineering may replace unhealthy genes in humans, as it already creates disease-resistant plants.

Duration

10 mins

Title

See-through

Synopsis

Looks at Nobel prizewinners whose work has given medical practitioners the ability to view the invisible in routine diagnostic medicine, including the discovery of x-rays by Wilhelm Röntgen, the first Nobel Prizewinner in Physics. Subjects covered include 3-D cross-sections of the body; electron microscopes; x-rays; ECGs; how CAT and MRI scanners work; prenatal ultrasound screening and scanning the brain for epilepsy.

Duration

10 mins

Title

Impulse

Synopsis

Secrets of the nervous system. How nervous impulses control behaviour in birds, mammals and humans, including aggression.

Duration

10 mins

Title

In the blood

Synopsis

Looks at the human cardiovascular system and how Nobel Prizewinners have revealed the workings of the heart, the lungs and the 100-thousand kilometres of blood vessels that keep us alive. Subjects covered include the discovery of blood groups, the roles of arteries and veins and the capillaries that fuel our muscles, why aspirin stops blood clots, how diet and lifestyle affect the health of heart and blood system, and why prevention is better than cure.

Duration

10 mins

Title

Nobel

Synopsis

A biography of Alfred Bernhard Nobel - the Swede who invented dynamite. Dismayed at its use in war, he sought to compensate the world by founding the Nobel Prize - to reward the best in science, literature and peace.

Duration

10 mins

Production Company

Name

Sveriges Television

Name

York Films of England

Email

office@yorkfilms.com

Web

http://www.yorkfilms.com External site opens in new window

Phone

01303 226 2345

Fax

01303 858 196

Address

23 Bradstone Avenue
Folkestone
Kent
CT19 5AQ

Notes

York Films specialises in producing science programming for television, particularly space and astronomy, with a strong emphasis on using CGI. Several series are available for sale on DVD on topics including Nobel prizewinners, bee breeding and six programmes on the bicycle.

Distributor

Name

How2DVD

Email

info@how2dvd.co.uk

Web

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Phone

020 8707 0523

Fax

020 8707 4931

Address

19 Grasmere Close
Feltham
Middlesex TW14 9QW