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Author
Publisher
The University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xiv, 165 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The accomplishments of pioneering American doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no secret that these nineteenth-century gynecologists performed experimental cesarean sections, ovariotomies, and obstetric fistula repairs primarily on poor and powerless women. "Medical Bondage" breaks new ground by exploring how and why physicians denied these women their full humanity yet valued...
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
4 Blu-rays (250 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (8 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 17 cm)
Language
English
Description
The Monster and the Girl: A bizarre thriller about an ape with a human brain who stalks the city and chooses his victims with care.
Captive Wild Woman: After Dr. Walters transforms an ape into the exotic Paula Dupree, he then turns her loose at the circus. Paula fits in splendidly becoming an animal trainer who wields strange powers over her lions and tigers. She even falls in love with a fellow trainer though becomes overwhelmed with jealousy when...
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s.
85) High life
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Monte and his baby daughter are the last survivors of a damned and dangerous mission to deep space. The crew, death row inmates led by a doctor with sinister motives, has vanished. As the mystery of what happened onboard the ship is unraveled, father and daughter must rely on each other to survive as they hurtle toward the oblivion of a black hole.
Language
English
Description
Moon zero two: An astronaut is hired to capture an asteroid made of sapphires.
Day the Earth froze: Based on Finnish mythology, this movie traces the exploits of Lemminkainen as he woos the fair Annikki and battles the evil witch Louhi.
Leech woman: An aging woman ventures to Africa to learn the secret of eternal youth but finds it comes at the price of human life.
Gorgo: A maudlin monster movie featuring two giant mother-and-son lizards and a...
87) Akira
Publisher
Funimation
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
25th Anniversary edition.
Physical Desc
2 DVD + 1 Blu-ray (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Clandestine army activities threaten the war-torn city of Neo-Tokyo when a mysterious being with powerful psychic abilities escapes his prison and inadvertently draws a violent motorcycle gang into a heinous web of experimentation. As a result, a biker with a twisted mind embarks on a path of war, seeking revenge against a society that once called him weak.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
436 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Documents the controversial story of the development of the first widely used normal human cell line, paving the way for some of the world's most important vaccines, against a backdrop of the devastating rubella epidemic of the mid-1960s.
91) Bluebird
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"In 1946, Eva leaves behind the rubble of Berlin for the streets of New York City, stepping from the fiery aftermath of one war into another, far colder one, where power is more important than principles, and lies are more plentiful than the truth. Eva holds the key to a deadly secret: Project Bluebird -- a horrific experiment of the concentration camps, capable of tipping the balance of world power. Both the Americans and the Soviets want Bluebird,...
Author
Series
Frankenstein journals volume 1
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
157 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
J.D. discovers that he is the son of Frankenstein's monster, and armed with the Doctor's journal he sets out to find his "relatives"--the descendants and relations of the people whose body parts Doctor Frankenstein used.
94) Firestarter
Language
English
Formats
Description
Charlene 'Charlie' McGee is a child who has the amazing ability to start fires with just a glance. Can her psychic power and the love of her father save her from the threatening government agency, 'The Shop, ' that wants her destroyed?
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 minutes) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The true story of three men who make the chance discovery, at the age of nineteen, that they are identical triplets, separated at birth and adopted to different parents. The trio's joyous reunion in 1980 catapults them to fame but it also sets in motion a chain of events that unearths an extraordinary and disturbing secret that goes far beyond their own lives, a secret that goes to the very heart of all human behavior.
Publisher
Scream Factory
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
4 Blu-rays (276 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Black Cat: A wealthy but embittered matriarch makes a deathbed recovery only to be murdered by someone in the greedy clan gathered for the reading of her will. When the family learns that nobody receives a penny until the very last of the old lady's multitude of beloved cats perish, both cats and people start turning up dead.
The Raven: A retired surgeon conspires with an escaped murderer to wreck vengeance on a prominent family.
The Invisible Ray:...
97) Miss Evers' boys
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Standard format.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"It is 1932 when loyal, devoted Nurse Eunice Evers is invited to work with Dr. Brodus and Dr. Douglas on a federally funded program to treat syphilis patients in Alabama. Free treatment is offered to those who test positive for the disease, including Caleb Humphries and Willie Johnson. But when the government withdraws its support, money is offered for what will become known as 'The Tuskegee Experiment'; a study of the effects of syphilis on patients...
99) I am legend
Language
English
Formats
Description
Robert Neville is the last human survivor in what is left of New York City. A pandemic has left only 1% of the population alive and most of those who survived are no longer human. The infected, now lurking in the shadows, watch Neville's every move. Perhaps mankind's last, best hope, Neville is driven by the only one remaining mission: to find a way to reverse the effects of the virus using his own immune blood.
100) Re-animator
Publisher
Arrow Video
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A dedicated student at a medical college and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue when an odd new student arrives on campus.
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