Partners of the heart / Duke Media and Spark Media ; produced and directed by Andrea Kalin ; recreation sequences directed by Bill Duke ; written by Lou Potter and Andrea Kalin.
Publisher:
Distributed by PBS Home Video,
Copyright Date:
2003
Description:
1 videocassette (60 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 1/2 in.
American experience (Television program) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91081282
Notes:
Narrator, Morgan Freeman ; Courtney B. Vance (voice of Vivien Thomas). Originally broadcast on the PBS television program: American experience in 2003.
Summary:
Against the backdrop of segregation, a Black carpenter's apprentice with a genius for surgery and a white surgeon who dared to defy medical gospel forged a partnership that changed the course of medical history. With only a high school degree, Vivien Thomas became a cardiac pioneer and a teacher to two generations of American's premiere heart surgeons at a time when he himself could not become one. His journey is a compelling, often overlooked American story of personal triumph.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.