Episode of Series “Discovery”.
A documentary about the quiet revolution in the operating theatre. The surgeon has now harnessed his skills to the microscope, and operations of the most minute detail are achieved with microsurgery. Depicts five case studies - a blind painter is made to see again, a deaf grandmother can hear again, a worker’s torn off hand is restored, a man’s severed thumb is replaced by his big toe, and a young woman has her fallopian tubes untied.
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In ACMI's collection
Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
002881
Language
English
Subject categories
Documentary → Documentary films - Great Britain
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Medical personnel
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Medical sciences
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Medical technology
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Microscopy, Medical
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Microsurgery
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Medical sciences
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)