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What happens when a baby is born with "ambiguous" genitalia or a combination of "male" and "female" body parts? Clinicians and parents in these situations are confronted with complicated questions such as whether a girl can have XY chromosomes, or whether some penises are "too small" for a male sex assignment. Since the 1950s, standard treatment has involved determining a sex for these infants and performing surgery to normalize the infant's genitalia....
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Meet John of God (João Teixeira da Faria) and witness his abilities of healing. During the past 50 years, over a million people have visited this man in Brazil. As a result of his gift, many have received healing for illnesses believed to be incurable. Features medical doctors and scientists, as well as testimonials from people who have been healed, and provides an insight into physical and emotional journeys which go beyond conventional medical...
624) Fleshmarket
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In nineteenth-century Scotland, following the death of his mother during surgery, Robbie decides to take revenge on the surgeon who performed the operation, Dr. Robert Knox, and in the process, makes a gruesome discovery about the lengths the medical profession will go to advance its knowledge of anatomy.
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In the 1920s when Laura Dillon felt like a man trapped in a womanʼs body, there were no words to describe her condition; ʺtranssexualsʺ had yet to enter common usage. And there was no known solution to being stuck between the sexes. Laura Dillon did all she could on her own: she cut her hair, dressed in menʼs clothing, bound her breasts with a belt. But in a desperate bid to feel comfortable in her own skin, she experimented with breakthrough...
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"A brutally honest story about fat prejudice in America--and one woman's experience with radical weight loss after a lifetime of fat shaming Kara Richardson Whitely thought she could do anything. After all, she climbed Mount Kilimanjaro--three times! But now she's off the mountain and back home again, and there's one thing she just can't manage to do--lose weight. In many ways, Kara is living the life of everywoman, except that she's not everywoman...
631) Sara's face
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Seventeen-year-old Sara wants so much to be famous that when a legendary, plastic-surgery-addicted rock star offers to take her under his wing and pay for her to have surgery too, she jumps at the chance despite her misgivings.
634) Czwarta ręka
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While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion; millions of TV viewers witness the accident. A well-known Boston hand surgeon wants to perform the first hand transplant on the reporter, but the problem is there is no hand available. A married woman from Wisconsin wants to give the reporter her husband's left hand--that is, after her husband dies.
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La cara es nuestra carta de presentación en sociedad. Nuestras relaciones personales, sociales y laborales están condicionadas en gran medida por la sensación que transmite nuestro rostro, tanto en forma como en expresión. Una cara placentera tiene una serie de características que podemos definir y acotar. Una cara desagradable lo es, igualmente, por una serie de rasgos que podemos concretar y, en consecuencia, modificar. Gran parte de nuestro...
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