TY  - ADVS
ED  - Shanachie Entertainment Corp.
TI  - A matter of life and death: magic moments and dark hours in the history of medicine 
AV  - CM DVD 00969 
U1  - 610.9 22
PY  - 2006///]
CY  - [Newton, NJ]
PB  - Shanachie Entertainment
KW  - Medicine
KW  - History
KW  - Life cycle, Human
KW  - Documentary films
KW  - Documentary
KW  - Feature
KW  - migfg
N1  - Documentary; Title from container; Originally released in 2004; 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
N2  - Chronicles 5,000 years in the history of medicine, telling the story of those 'magic moments' of groundbreaking medical discoveries, as well as when it went horribly wrong
ER  -