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Private Practice: Acting ethically at the Wellness Center?
(Warning – contains plot spoilers!) Private Practice is a spin-off from Seattle hospital drama Grey’s Anatomy in which Dr Addison Montgomery (Kate Walsh) moves from Seattle Grace to join t… more →
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Private Practice: Acting ethically at the Wellness Center?
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Chris Willmott wrote 5 months ago: (Warning – contains plot spoilers!) Private Practice is a spin-off from Seattle hospital drama … more →
Blood & Guts - A History of Surgery: Fixing Faces
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David Willis wrote 9 months ago: Michael Mosley performing facial surgery on a mannequin/dummy In the fourth part of the BBC 4 Blood … more →
Blood & Guts - A History of Surgery: Spare Parts
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David Willis wrote 9 months ago: Blood & Guts - A History of Surgery: Spare Parts is the third part of the BBC Four documentary s … more →
DNA - The Promise & The Price
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David Willis wrote 10 months ago: Narrator Bill Paterson: "A child born in 1953, the structure of DNA has just been discovered. 1 … more →
Blood and Guts - Bleeding Hearts
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David Willis wrote 11 months ago: This short post focuses on Bleeding Hearts, the second part of the BBC 4 series Blood and Guts: A Hi … more →
To 'Opt in' or 'Opt out'? - Organ Donation in the UK
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David Willis wrote 1 year ago: NHS 'Transplants save lives' website Organ donation is one of the miracles of modern medicin … more →
My Shocking Story - Human Face Transplant
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David Willis wrote 1 year ago: At a military hospital in China, Professor Guo Shuzhong is striving to advance the necessary medical … more →
Exploiting Genetic Knowledge - Visions of the Future (2)
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David Willis wrote 1 year ago: The Biotech Revolution, the second episode of the BBC4 Visions of the Future series, continues to de … more →
Are hybrid embryos an ethical step too far? - The Big Questions
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Chris Willmott wrote 1 year ago: Following the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority’s decision to approve the creation … more →
The Insider: Kidneys for sale - Dispatches
David Willis wrote 2 years ago: With the demand for donor kidneys continuing to outstrip supply, Professor Nadey Hakin proposes a co … more →
Tissue Engineering - The Farm Revealed (3)
Bonnie Green wrote 2 years ago: The third episode in The Farm Revealed series (Channel 4, 13th June 2007) a spin-off from the Animal … more →
Making of Modern Medicine
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Chris Willmott wrote 2 years ago: In a 30-part radio series (15 mins per episode), Andrew Cunningham from Cambridge University offered … more →
AIDS Medicines, Selling Organs - Holby City
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Chris Willmott wrote 2 years ago: (Warning: contains plot spoilers!) The principal bioethics storyline in the episode Fly me to the mo … more →
Face transplant - Horizon
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Chris Willmott wrote 2 years ago: The World’s First Face Transplant is an episode of the BBC science documentary series Horizon. … more →
Xenotransplantation - Holby City
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Chris Willmott wrote 3 years ago: A recent episode of the medical drama Holby City has a 90 second clip that could prove a very nice … more →
Human Cloning - Never Let Me Go
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Chris Willmott wrote 3 years ago: (Warning – contains plot spoilers!) Never Let Me Go is Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2005 novel set i … more →
Therapeutic cloning - The Island
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Chris Willmott wrote 3 years ago: (Warning: contains story spoilers!) The Island looks into a near future (the year 2019 is specified … more →
