Risk: Isolation Suit

Series

Series Name

Living Tomorrow

Issue

Issue No.

174

Date Released

1976

Length of issue (in feet)

521

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Risk: Oil Skimmer
2. 2Risk: Isolation Suit
3. 3Risk: Computer Cops

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 3

Summary

COI synopsis: A few new approaches to reducing risk. A miniature isolating tent that allows high-risk operations to be carried out with minimum risk. The trick is that the operating site alone is enclosed in a plastic bubble - while the operating team and the patient remain outside!

Keywords

Health and medicine; Science and technology; Inventions and discoveries

Written sources

COI Microfilm Roll 52 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1458/174

Credits:

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Cutter

Peter Greenaway

Editor

Peter Greenaway

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

Email

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Notes

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