Burden of Genius
Tjardus Greidanus | United States of America
January 1, 2017 | 88m
In 1967, Dr. Thomas Starzl stunned the world with the first successful liver transplantation. His breakthrough provoked controversy.
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Overview:
In 1967, Dr. Thomas Starzl stunned the world with the first successful liver transplantation. His breakthrough provoked controversy. Critics accused him of recklessness, even murder. Others declared it the beginning of a medical revolution. "Burden of Genius" is the story of an innovator as complex and elusive as the biological secrets he unlocked. It is also a reflection on the price of scientific progress by the man many consider the greatest surgeon of the 20th century and the father of transplantation.
Credits
| James Redford | Self – Filmmaker, Liver Transplant Patient |
| Larry Kramer | Self – Writer/Activist/Liver Transplant Patient |
| David Crosby | Self – Musician, Liver Transplant Patient |
| David McCullough | Self – Author, Historian |
| Arthur Caplan | Self – Professor of Bioethics, NYU |
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