Description
First part in an exciting new 5-part medical history series for BBC1 taking a look at how healthcare has changed over the decades using archive and contributor interviews to take a trip down memory... lane and chart progress that has been made. The third episode takes a look at pioneering IVF treatment and the importance it played in so many women's lives; the treatment of TB; how the AIDS virus was portrayed in the press and the ensuing government campaign; plus the dreaded dentist and how things have drastically changed since the days when dentures were the norm.
First part in an exciting new 5-part medical history series for BBC1 taking a look at how healthcare has changed over the decades using archive and contributor interviews to take a trip down memory... lane and chart progress that has been made. The third episode takes a look at pioneering IVF treatment and the importance it played in so many women's lives; the treatment of TB; how the AIDS virus was portrayed in the press and the ensuing government campaign; plus the dreaded dentist and how things have drastically changed since the days when dentures were the norm.
| Series: | A picture of health |
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| Episode | 3 |
| First transmission date: | 29-02-2012 |
| Published: | 2012 |
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| Duration: | 00:43:25 |
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| Producer: | Julie Beanland |
| Presenter: | Larry Lamb |
| Narrator: | Kelly Hunter |
| Contributors: | Fiona Armstrong; Keith Easter; Jonathan Grimshaw; Lillian Howes; Virginia Howes; Jenny Joy; Larry Lamb; Derek Lawrence; Grace McDonald; Alastair McLean; Tom O'Connor; Nicholas Parsons; Paul Ross; John Shneerson; Miriam Stoppard; Dolly Terfus; s Charlie Townsend |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Link to related site: | Website: http://www.open.edu/openlearn/whats-on/ou-on-the-bbc-picture-health |
| Production number: | FKIN873E |
| Videofinder number: | 82457 |
| Available to public: | no |