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The twentieth century of health on film

Understanding Aggression

By nature, medical film and video footage is a kind of ‘hidden cinema’ – made for and shared among medical professionals, such as doctors, dentists, surgeons, anaesthetists and obstetricians in their often cloistered worlds. Since 2007, the Wellcome Library has been digitising its Moving Image and Sound holdings after receiving some initial funding from JISC Collections.  Read more about their efforts here.