Summary: Fiona Maye is a High Court judge in London ruling with wisdom and kindness over ethically complicated cases of family law. Fiona is tasked with ruling on the case of Adam, an exceptional boy who is refusing a life-saving blood transfusion. He is three months from his eighteenth birthday and legally still a child. Fiona visits Adam in the hospital and it has an extreme emotional impact on them...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Children 2018Guthrie, Julian.
Summary: "In 1951 in Sydney, Australia, a fourteen-year-old boy named James Harrison was near death when he received a transfusion of blood that saved his life. A few years later, and half a world away, a shy young doctor at Columbia University realized he was more comfortable in the lab than in the examination room. Neither could have imagined how their paths would cross, or how they would change the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.32 GUTAhern, Cecelia
Summary: How can you know someone you've never met? Justin Hitchcock is divorced, lonely and restless. He arrives in Dublin to give a lecture on art and meets an attractive doctor, who persuades him to donate blood. It's the first thing to come straight from his heart in a long time. When Joyce Conway leaves the hospital after a terrible accident, with her life and her marriage in pieces, she moves back...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harperluxe 2009
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Summary: "Award-winning journalist Cara McGoogan follows the twisting trail of tightlipped executives and missing documents to bravely ask if the line of corruption could have been broken, whether people could have been saved, and, ultimately, who is to blame for the thousands of unnecessary deaths. McGoogan not only uncovers the scandal of Factor VIII but also exposes a sweeping blueprint for corporate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Diversion Books, a division of Diversion Publishing Corp. 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 616.97 MCGSummary: This program traverses a broad span in which blood went from being viewed as a key element in religious rituals and the crafting of myths to the end of the 19th century, when transfusions had become safe and routine. Among those who highlight the milestones along the way to a better understanding of this precious liquid are Douglas Starr, author of the critically acclaimed Blood: An Epic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Ironically, the course of blood science was accelerated by the needs of the battlefield. This program looks at those innovations born of combat's grim necessities in the first half of the 20th century, from the Spanish Civil War, where blood was first collected, refrigerated, and carried into battle, to the massive blood drives and stockpiling during World War II. Guests include Col. John Hess,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: "Provides basic consumer health information about blood and circulatory system function, diseases, and treatments. Includes index, glossary of related terms, and other resources"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Omnigraphics 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.1 BLOKerr, Philip
Summary: A virus is decimating the population of Earth and the only defense is a blood transfusion. A plot is hatched to rob a blood bank on the moon and sell its untainted blood on the black market. An expensive operation, requiring lots of high tech, but it promises to earn a fortune.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HOLTH 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KERSummary: Sang-hyun is a priest who cherishes life - so much so that he selflessly volunteers for a secret vaccine development project meant to eradicate a deadly virus. But the virus takes the priest, and a blood transfusion is urgently ordered up for him. The blood he receives is infected, so Sang-hyun now exists as a vampire.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN THIMcEwan, Ian
Summary: London High Court Judge Fiona Maye presides over a sensitive case involving a family of Jehovah's Witnesses who won't allow their seventeen-year-old son to get a lifesaving blood transfusion because it conflicts with their religious beliefs. Meanwhile, Fiona's husband, Jack, has just left home, and she begins to feel the pressures of both resolving the case and saving her crumbling marriage.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014