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  1. Gulf War Jigsaw (1998 Video)

    Producer
    Deborah Cadbury
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Reveals how counter-measures used to protect troops in the Gulf War against chemical and biological weapons may have backfired, making some verterans serious ill. The number of British and American veterans...

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  2. Dawn of the Clone Age (1997 Video)

    Producer
    Deborah Cadbury
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Tells how Dolly the sheep, the first cloned copy an adult mammal, came to be, looking at the experiments on cloning that went on before, and the scientific possibilities opened up by this development. Looks...

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  3. Fat Cats and Skinny Mice (1997 Video)

    aka: Fat Cats, Thin Mice

    Producer
    Deborah Cadbury
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at new approaches to weight loss, as one in seven people in Britain are reputed be clinically obese. Follows a women who underwent stomach-stapling surgery and looks at no-calorie fat (Olestra) and a...

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  4. Siamese Twins (1997 Video)

    Producer
    Jon Palfreman
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at the surgical attempt to separate the young Siamese twins Dao and Duan, who are 3-year-old Thai orphans. They share a pelvis and a third leg, their spines and lower colons are fused and each twin has...

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  5. Assault on the Male (1996 Video)

    Director
    Deborah Cadbury
    Producer
    Deborah Cadbury
    Subject
    Environmental science; Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 48 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) 1993 version

    Scientists estimate that sperm counts have fallen by half over the last 50 years. Testicular cancer and malformations of male organs have become increasingly common. Biologists have found evidence of...

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  6. Human Laboratory, The (1995 Video)

    Producer
    Deborah Cadbury
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Investigates research carried out on women in Third World coutries using the implanted contraceptive Norplant. Presents testimony from women in the slums and villages of Bangladesh and Haiti, examines the...

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  7. Twice Born (1995 Video)

    Director
    Deborah Cadbury
    Producer
    Deborah Cadbury
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 56 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Two-year-old Ben Crosland was born ‘twice’ - at only 24 weeks he was partially removed from his mother to undergo experimental surgery, and then returned to the womb and his life was saved. The...

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  8. Too Close to the Sun (1994 Video)

    Producer
    Deborah Cadbury
    Subject
    Engineering; Physics
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    In 1989 Professors Martin Fleishmann and Stanley Pons announced they had discovered the secret of endless, cheap energy by perfecting nuclear fusion in a test tube. Their discovery was dismissed with...

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  9. Cheating Time (1993 Video)

    Producer
    Deborah Cadbury
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Asks whether it is possible to rewrite our biological destiny. Already motherhood is possible after the menopause, but it may be possible to rejuvenate the ovaries and reverse the menopause, or at least...

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