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  1. Hands and Feet (2014)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £390.00

    In this programme, George McGavin joins a team of specialist anatomists in the dissection room to unpick the secrets of human hands and feet. Starting with the skin, the series moves down through each...

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  2. Brave Medical Life, A: The Founder of Homeopathy (2013)

    Producer
    Mark Whitaker
    Subject
    History; Medical sciences

    This programme marks the two hundredth anniversary of the publication of homeopathy’s founding text ‘Samuel Hahnemann’s Organon of Rational Medicine’. It recognises that homeopathy remains deeply...

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  3. Pain, Pus and Poison (2013)

    Director
    Ben Crichton; Alex Freeman
    Producer
    Ben Crichton
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £34.99

    Dr Michael Mosley tells the story of how the world’s most useful and valuable drugs were created. The most poisonous toxin known to man, Botulinum, is now used as an anti-wrinkle drug called Botox. Yet it...

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  4. London’s Forgotten Children: Thomas Coram and the Foundling Hospital (2012)

    Subject
    History; Social welfare

    Video recording of a lecture held on 7 March 2012 in the series ‘The Lost Hospitals of London’ organised by Gresham College. (53 minutes) In 1739, Captain Thomas Coram was dismayed at the sight of...

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  5. Good Heart Attack, The (2010)

    Director
    Uli Hesse; Sean Davidson
    Subject
    Medical sciences

    This short film threads together the history of cardiac arrest treatment with the paradoxical discovery that stopping the heart can make it stronger. Shows how the resurrection of dead dogs in Russia in the...

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  6. Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery (5 Parts) (2008)

    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 250 minutes), £975.00 (series) £195 each part

    A series of five 50-minute programmes on the history of surgery, presented by Dr Michael Mosley. He introduces audiences to the breathtaking, heroic and at times comically entertaining story of how surgeons...

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  7. Mesmer (2007)

    Director
    Roger Spottiswoode
    Subject
    Film Studies; Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 107 minutes), £9.99

    Film dramatisation by Dennis Potter of the life of eighteenth century Viennese physician, Franz Anton Mesmer, who used unorthodox healing practices based on his theory of ‘animal magnetism’. After...

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  8. Homeopathy: The Mystery of Healing (2007)

    Subject
    Medical sciences

    This film looks at the origins of homeopathy and how it works, if indeed it does. It was developed 200 years ago by Samuel Hahneman, a German physician and chemist, who was a contemporary of Mozart. He...

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  9. James May’s Twentieth Century (6 Parts) (2007)

    aka: James May’s 20th Century

    Subject
    History; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £39.99

    Documentary series about 20th century innovations. Separate programmes cover worldwide travel and communications, space exploration, how warfare drives ingenuity, emergence of the teenager, and urbanisation.

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  10. Romantics, The: Complete Series (2006)

    Subject
    Arts and Humanities; History; Philosophy
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £15.00

    A compilation of three programmes exploring ‘The Romantics’. FROM REVOLUTION TO NATURE - This film traces the ‘birth’ of the individual in modern society. It begins with Jean Jacques Rousseau who...

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