The crisis in western medicine.

Date:
1975
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Description

The programme considers some of the ideas of Ivan Illich presented in his book "Medical Nemesis", and Dr. Bradshaw explains two projects based on Illich's philosophy; the AMIGOS Life Centres, loosely structured, demedicalised health educational elements in a live community centre, to be run by and for the laity in co-operation with local GPs and hospitals; and a new journal that will take a critical look at what the medical establishment is doing, particularly its counter productive activities in the health field as reported in the standard journals.

Publication/Creation

London : University of London Audio-visual centres, 1975.

Physical description

1 videocassette (U-matic) (35.33 min.) : sound, color, PAL.
1 videocassette (digibeta) (35.33 min.) : sound, color, PAL.
1 DVD (35.33 min.) : sound, color, PAL.

Series

Notes

This tape is one of more than 120 titles, originally broadcast on Channel 7 of the ILEA closed-circuit television network, given to Wellcome Trust from the University of London Audio-Visual Centre shortly after it closed in the late 1980s. Although some of these programmes might now seem rather out-dated, they probably represent the largest and most diversified body of medical video produced in any British university at this time, and give a comprehensive and fascinating view of the state of medical and surgical research and practice in the 1970s and early 1980s, thus constituting a contemporary medical-historical archive of great interest.

Creator/production credits

Presented by Dr John Bradshaw. Introduced by Dr Paul Grob. Produced by David Sharp. Made by University of London Audio-Visual Centre, 1975. Made for the British Postgraduate Medical Federation.

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University of London

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