Equinox: Dr Satan's Robot

Record ID: 118132
  • Title: Equinox: Dr Satan's Robot
  • Date: 15th December 1996
  • Summary: Throughout the world,science is advancing into unchartered territory: artificial wombs,male pregnancy,cloning and human/animal hybrids should be possible within a few years. To scientists,this represents a brave new world,a new era of scientific understanding and progress,but to their opponents these developments epitomise science gone mad. Includes contributions from Prof. Robert White,the only man known to have successfully performed a head transplant (on a monkey); Terry Gilliam,film director,whose films have dealt with such issues; anti-genetics campaigner Jeremy Rifkin; and Prof. Lewis Wolpert.
  • Description:The clash between art and science over the demonization of the new genetics. (D
  • Broadcaster:Channel 4
  • Collection: Channel 4
  • Genre:Documentary and Factual
  • Producer:Unspecified
  • Programme Episode:Episode 1
  • Transmission Date:15/12/1996
  • Rights:On Request
  • Decade: 1990s
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