Mobility And Freedom: Suitcase Kidney
Series
- Series Name
- Living Tomorrow
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 3
- Summary
- COI synopsis: In a crowded world we all have less room to move. Our programme looks at some new liberating ideas - and at the families whose lives are now a little freer. At the kidney unit of a British hospital a patient is shown the latest miracle of miniaturisation - a kidney machine in a suitcase. It offers him the chance, for the first time since his kidneys failed, to go on holiday with his family.
- Researcher Comments
- Story also appears in ‘Living Tomorrow No. 304’
- Keywords
- Health and medicine; Science and technology; Engineering; Inventions and discoveries; Design
- Written sources
- COI Microfilm Roll 55 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 1458/223
- Credits:
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- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Cutter
- Laurence Williamson
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Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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London W1T 1LN - Notes
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