Learning on ScreenNobel’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
York Films of England
- 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
- info@how2dvd.co.uk
- Web
- www.how2dvd.co.uk External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 020 8707 0523
- Fax
- 020 8707 4931
- Address
- 19 Grasmere Close
Feltham
Middlesex TW14 9QW
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