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Autopsy: Life and Death

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Autopsy: Life and Death

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Anatomist Dr Gunther von Hagens and pathologist Professor John Lee get right under the skin to reveal the processes in life that tie us to our ultimate fate in death

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Series 1 Episode 1 Circulation

The series begins by looking at diseases affecting the circulatory system, a major cause of death in the UK. Von Hagens and Lee explain that rather than life hanging by a thread, it hangs…
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Series 1 Episode 2 Cancer

In the second programme of the series von Hagens and Lee take a look at cancer. They illuminate the difficulties of diagnosing and treating a disease that is a result of the body's own…
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Presenter: Dr Gunther von Hagens
Presenter: Professor John Lee

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