Mend Me. A Horizon Guide to Transplants
Description
Transplant surgery has now reached incredible heights, from achieving full face transplants to growing organs in the lab. What we now take for granted has been a hard won struggle, both for the patients who were willing to gamble their lives and the doctors who faced ethical and medical dilemmas in the name of progress. Michael Mosley looks through the Horizon archive, identifying the key turning points for transplant surgery to explore how far science can go in its bid to prolong life.
Runtime
52 min
Subjects
- Human anatomy (178)
- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc (27)
- Human physiology (137)
- Medicine (401)
- Surgery, Operative (286)
Genre
Date of Publication
[2014], c2013
Database
Films on Demand
Direct Link
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