Heroic failures.

Date:
1987
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About this work

Also known as

Doers not thinkers.

Description

Five-part documentary series on some of the pioneers of modern surgery, combining archive footage, dramatic reconstructions, and interviews with surviving witnesses and participants. Part 3: Heroic Failures. Seeks to explain why surgeons persisted until very recently with radical mastectomies more than half a century after the much gentler and less drastic lumpectomy procedure pioneered by Geoffrey Keynes had first become available.

Publication/Creation

[London?] : BBC-TV, 1987.

Physical description

1 videocassette (VHS) (50 min.) : sound, color, PAL.

Notes

Supporting paperwork available in the department.

Creator/production credits

A BBC-TV co-production in association with WGBH Boston and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Series producer; Jon Palfreman.

Copyright note

BBC-TV.

Languages

Where to find it

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    548V
  • Copy 0

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    546/7/8bV

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