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050 _aR133
245 _aA matter of life and death :
_bmagic moments and dark hours in the history of medicine /
_cShanachie Entertainment Corp.
_hVideorecording.
260 _a[Newton, N.J.] :
_bShanachie Entertainment,
_c[2006]
300 _a2 videodiscs ( 4 hrs.) : .
_bson., coul. ;
_c4 3/4 in.
505 _a The first breath: Pregnancies with complications ; Saving the premature infant ; The scourge of smallpox ; The breakthroughs of Louis Pasteur ; The fight against tuberculosis ; X-rays and seeing into the human body -- The wild years: The birth control pill revolution ; Syphilis: cupid's poison arrow ; The rise of AIDS ; Searching for the human seed ; Battlefield medicine: from bone saws and wound clamps ; Ether, chloroform and laughing gas -- Mid-life: The inner workings of the heart ; The deadly clotting of blood ; Artificial kidneys and dialysis ; The battle against diabetes ; Unraveling the stomach ulcer myster ; Drugs from alchemy to pharmacy ; The miracle of penicillin -- Age and death: Life saving heart transplants ; 200 years of cancer research ; Radiation and chemotherapy ; The fight against blindness ; Mapping the brain ; Alzheimer's: the disease of the 21st century ; DNA and gene.
650 _aMedicine
_x History.
650 _aStages of life.
650 _aDocumentaries.
942 _2aua
_cAV
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