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  1. Medical Joinery (1994 Video)

    Director
    Bill Metcalfe
    Producer
    Bob Thorpe
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 28 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Discusses plastic surgery and other facial reconstruction techniques as practised at Mount Vernon Hospital near London. Looks at the development of hardware used in facial reconstructive surgery. Shows...

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  2. Premature Babies (1989 Video)

    Producer
    Bill Metcalfe
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Free loan to members (BMA) Sale (LTS), Videocassette. U-matic. col. 29 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    The ability to save the lives of extremely premature babies is one of the medical successes of our age. Even babies over three months premature and weighing less than 1000 grams can survive and flourish....

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  3. Physics All Around Us (1987 Video)

    Director
    Bill Metcalfe
    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    Free loan, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 22 min.

    Shows what physicists do and how the application of physics affects our everyday lives. Shot in the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Loughborough University, the Royal Marsden Hospital and Sussex University,...

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  4. Chance to Live, A (1984 Video)

    Director
    Bill Metcalfe
    Producer
    Bob Thorpe
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 28 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at the work of Dr Cesar Milstein, who discovered how to grow antibodies outside the human body. Monoclonal antibodies are being used to help reduce the risk of mismatched bone marrow transplants and,...

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  5. Mummy’s Blessing, The (1984 Video)

    Director
    Bill Metcalfe
    Producer
    Bob Thorpe
    Subject
    Archaeology; Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 26 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Shows how the study of an Egyptian mummy at Manchester Museum has resulted in the development of new fingerprinting methods and new techniques in radiology and pathology. Ends with a long sequence showing a...

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  6. Promise in the Sky (1980 Film, Video)

    Director
    Bill Metcalfe
    Producer
    Judith Davison
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Suggests that investment in space technology is perhaps a ‘flight from reality’ with so many problems on earth requiring urgent attention. Discusses the benefits that have and will be experienced,...

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