Episode of Series “Horizon”.
Looks at the space part surgery business, of which the very fundamental technical problems remain to be solved after thirty-five years. Only very simple artificial limbs are possible. Hospitals and medical centres are visited in search of bionic man and finally the program tries to visualise what an actual bionic man would look like.
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
008977
Language
English
Subject categories
Documentary → Documentary films - Great Britain
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Artificial limbs
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Medical technology
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Surgery
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Biotechnology - Research
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Medical technology
Television → Television series → Television series - Great Britain
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)
16mm film; Limited Access Print (Section 2)