Life and death. Part 1, Blood.
- Date:
- 2006
- Videos
About this work
Description
The first in a four-part series of autopsies performed by Gunther Von Hagens and recorded at the Institute for Plastination in Heidelberg, Germany, in front of an international audience of body donors and anatomy students. The series aims to look at the processes of disease and death on the body, and this part focuses on diseases of the blood and circulatory system. Von Hagens dissects the body of an elderly woman while Professor John Lee, Pathologist at Rotherham General Hospital & Hull York Medical School provides a more medically detailed account of the process.
Publication/Creation
Channel 4, 2006.
Physical description
1 video cassette (60 min.) (VHS) : sound, color, PAL.
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Notes
Broadcast on 16 January, 2006. All bodies being dissected were formally donated to the Institute.
Copyright note
Channel 4
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