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Frankenstein's Monster
Title
Frankenstein's Monster [electronic resource (video)] / BBC Worldwide Ltd.
Published
New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2014], c2013.
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (53 min.) : sd., col.
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Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on March 21, 2014.
Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
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Summary
Professor Brian Cox guides viewers through 350 years of British science to reveal what science really is, who the people are who practice it, and how it is inextricably linked to the past, present, and future of each and every one of us. In Frankenstein's Monster Professor Cox grapples with science's darker side, asking why, when science has done so much for us, it often gets such a bad press. Starting with the original Frankenstein - the grisly 19th-century tale of George Foster's hanging and subsequent 'electrocution', Brian confronts the idea that science can go 'too far'. From the nuclear bomb to genetic modification, British science has always been at the cutting edge of discovery, but are British scientists incompetent meddlers, or misunderstood visionaries whose gifts to humanity are corrupted by the unscrupulous?
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Other formats
Originally produced: BBC Worldwide Ltd, 2013.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2019
Series
In Search of Science
System details note
Mode of access: Internet.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Audience
7 & up.
Contents
George Foster's Execution (1:18)
Galvinism (2:54)
Fears About Science (1:11)
Early Nineteenth Century Britain (1:31)
Humphrey Davey (1:16)
Nitrogen Triidide Reaction (2:37)
Davey on Knowledge as Power (2:57)
Secret Military Project (2:28)
Rutherford and the Atomic Bomb (1:14)
Rutherford's Finding About Nucleus (2:21)
Uranium 235 (1:21)
Uranium Enrichment (1:20)
Scientists (2:44)
Biology and Controversy (0:40)
Genetic Modification (1:30)
Cambridge (1:28)
Crick and Watson (2:41)
Crick and Watson (0:45)
Fears about Genetic Engineering (2:40)
Anti-GM Foods Campaign (2:28)
Scientists and Public Persuasion (1:17)
John Hunter (2:18)
Hunter's Public Persuasion (2:40)
Animal Rights Activism (1:11)
Medical Experiments on Primates (3:29)
Public Ambivalence About Science (1:23)
Aldini Vindicated (1:03)
Additional Resources & Credits: Frankenstein's Monster: In Search of Science (1:08)
Videorecording number
55679s Infobase
55681 Infobase
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Genre/Form
Educational films.
Internet videos.
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Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
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