Superhuman - 3-DVD Set ( Superhuman: The Awesome Power Within ) ( Super human )

Superhuman - 3-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Superhuman: The Awesome Power Within
Alternate Title: Super human
Language Selections:
Chinese ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 4 )

Running Time:
289 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
3-DVD Set
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2001 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Judith Bunting
Liesl Evans

Written By:
David Hickman

Actors:
Robert Winston ..... Presenter

Synopsis:

We live surrounded by technology, and yet still inhabit bodies that were designed for the Stone Age. Building on the success of the award-winning, landmark series The Human Body, this 6 part series shows what happens in the body when things go wrong and what can be done to put them right. This series is designed to show us the beauty and faults that lie within our bodies, and the extraordinary ways that the human body adapts and responds to trauma and the world around us. It shows how pioneers at the cutting edge of modern medicine are harnessing the bodys extraordinary ability to self-repair. As seen on ABC TV.

The Companion Guide to "Superhuman Body" Airing Nationwide on The Learning Channel March 27-28! Following on from the enormously successful BBC program, The Human Body, Superhuman explores the body's amazing ability to heal, renew, and regenerate itself. This stunningly illustrated book relates dramatic tales of futuristic medicine taking place today, and, also, describes how the body's own power of self-repair is enhanced with contemporary drugs and techniques. It explores medicine being pioneered today and looks ahead to what will be possible in the near future - 'designer' babies, viruses carrying repair genes to cells before they become cancerous, tailor-made human tissue and organs from modifying animal organs with human genes, and electrodes implanted into the brain allowing the blind to see. Superhuman concentrates on six key medical areas - cancer, infection, transplantation, trauma, repair, and reproduction. It records the before, during, and after of radical operations on real people. It gives witness to the hopes and fears of doctors and patients as new treatments are administered - in many cases, for the first time for both the patients and the professionals. None of these developments would be possible without an increasing understanding of the basic way our body functions, or without a clear recognition of medicine's history. Superhuman focuses on these aspects of medicine and, also, on the key ethical problems raised by the advance of medical technology. In this guide to the future of medicine, we begin to understand just how superhuman the body really is.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 15 September, 2012.