Autopsy: Life and Death(2006)
Documentary
First Air Date: 2006-01-16
Average Runtime: 1h 0m
Rating: 0.0
Votes: 0
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 4
In this new four-part series, anatomist Dr Gunther von Hagens and pathologist Professor John Lee get right under the skin to reveal the processes in life that tie us to our ultimate fate in death. The two scientists perform a series of autopsy demonstrations at the Institute of Plastination in Heidelberg, Germany, in which they demonstrate the process of finding a cause of death. With the aid of human dissection, live models and scientific models they are able to reveal what disease really looks like and how it works.
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Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
Episodes: 4E01
Circulation (Lesson #1: Blood)
Air Date: 2006-01-16
The series begins by looking at diseases affecting the circulatory system, a major cause of death in the UK. Von Hage...
E02
Cancer (Lesson #2: Tumours)
Air Date: 2006-01-17
In the second programme of the series von Hagens and Lee take a look at cancer. They illuminate the difficulties of d...
E03
Poisoning (Lesson #3: Poison)
Air Date: 2006-01-18
When von Hagens and Lee address the subject of poisoning, they are not thinking of a murder mystery. Von Hagens disse...
E04
Ageing (Lesson #4: Time)
Air Date: 2006-01-19
In the last programme, von Hagens and Lee illustrate the process of ageing. To reveal the dread process for us all to...
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