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NOVA; Are You Doing This for Me, Doctor?

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Series

NOVA

Program

Are You Doing This for Me, Doctor?

Program Number

109

Series Description

Premiered March 1974 NOVA is a general-interest documentary series that addresses a single science issue each week. Billed as "science adventures for curious grown-ups" when it first aired in March, 1974, NOVA continues to offer an informative and entertaining approach to a challenging subject. 1996 marked NOVA's 23rd season, which makes it the longest-running science program on national television. It is also one of television's most acclaimed series, having won every major television award, most of them many times over. Series release date: 3/3/1974

Program Description

Experimental procedures on humans. The advance of medicine depends inevitably on the testing of experimental procedures on human volunteers from either the healthy or the sick. Yet such procedures are often dangerous, and may not be of direct benefit to the subject. NOVA examines how individuals' interests are safeguarded, and asks, under what circumstances experiments should be conducted on children.

Duration

00:64:00

Asset Type

Broadcast program

Media Type

Video

Genres

Documentary

Topics

Science

Citation

Chicago: “NOVA; Are You Doing This for Me, Doctor?,” GBH Archives, accessed January 17, 2022, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_319A5CE2080D4EC08C9AF0D158EA9BF3.

MLA: “NOVA; Are You Doing This for Me, Doctor?.” GBH Archives. Web. January 17, 2022. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_319A5CE2080D4EC08C9AF0D158EA9BF3>.

APA: NOVA; Are You Doing This for Me, Doctor?. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_319A5CE2080D4EC08C9AF0D158EA9BF3