| Description |
1 videodisc (DVD) (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Summary |
A series tracing the glorious history of surgery and the magnificent cast of characters who have taken it from the dark ages and turned it into a precise, skilful and life saving discipline. Uncovering magnificent breakthroughs, ideas that were inspired and those that were deranged. But none of this would have been possible if it weren't for four fundamental discoveries that changed the face of surgery forever: mapping human anatomy, managing blood loss, developing pain relief and stopping infections. This program goes back to surgeries crude beginnings when it was little more than crude butchery, and shows how surgery was utterly transformed into a discpline that would for the first time cure more people than it killed. |
| Contents |
Bloody beginnings |
| Notes |
Off-air recording of SBS broadcast February 3, 2009. Copied under Part VA of the Copyright Act |
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DVD |
| Credits |
Produced and directed by Emma Jay |
| Performer |
Presented by Michael Mosley |
| Notes |
Available for Deakin University staff and students only |
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Rated: M |
| Subject |
Surgery -- History
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Medical errors -- History
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| Author |
Mosely, Michael
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Jay, Emma
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SBS-TV
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