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Title:

"Bad blood" / BBC Education & Training ; producer, Dana Purvis.

Publisher:

Films for the Humanities & Sciences,

Copyright Date:

1997

Description:

1 videocassette (50 min) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 1/2 in.

Subject:

Human genetics.
Medical genetics.
Genetic disorders.
Disease susceptibility.
Hemophilia--Genetic aspects.
Children of atomic bomb victims--Hiroshima-shi.--Hiroshima-shi.

Other Authors:

Purvis, Dana.
Jones, Steve, 1944- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92057503
BBC Education & Training. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87894912
Films for the Humanities (Firm) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80050316

Notes:

Host, Steve Jones.

Summary:

"The modern consequences of an ancient human obsession, the fear of inheriting bad genes, are explored in this program. In Hiroshima, Steve Jones speaks with hibakusha-- children of atom bomb survivors, shunned as dangerous mates-- and assesses the genetic risk that their children will be mutants. The royal blood disease, hemophilia, is traced through the genes, but Jones scientifically disproves the theory thay Queen Victoria, whose son carried the disease, was its genetic source. A genetic dating service tests applicants for defective genes. A mutant gene that causes restricted growth is studied in combination with other causal factors, such as age and sex."--Container.

Series:

In the blood

OCLC:

(OCoLC)148114796

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)