Arrowsmith /

An idealistic young medical student relocates to the West Indies hoping to end the bubonic-plague epidemic there. He conducts a study involving a vaccine where half of his patients receive a placebo injection. This forces him to face an ethical dilemma between following the scientific method and sav...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Arrowsmith (Motion picture)
Other Authors:	Ford, John, 1894-1973 (fim producer,), Howard, Sidney Coe, 1891-1939 (Screenwriter), Colman, Ronald (Actor), Hayes, Helen (Actor), Bennett, Richard, 1873-1944 (Actor), Newman, Alfred, 1901-1970 (composer (expression)), Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951
Format:	Video
Language:	English
Published:	[Los Angeles, California] : [Samuel Goldwyn] 1931.
Subjects:	Plague > West Indies > Drama. Physicians > West Indies > Drama. Vaccines > Research > West Indies > Drama. Medicine > Research > Moral and ethical aspects > Drama. West Indies > Drama. Medical films (Motion pictures) Fiction films. Feature films. Film adaptations. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Online Access:	Connect to this streaming video (Swank Digital Campus)

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Summary:	An idealistic young medical student relocates to the West Indies hoping to end the bubonic-plague epidemic there. He conducts a study involving a vaccine where half of his patients receive a placebo injection. This forces him to face an ethical dilemma between following the scientific method and saving as many lives as possible.
Item Description:	Based on a novel by Sinclair Lewis. Originally produced by Samuel Goldwyn Films in 1931.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (1 video file (99 min., 3 sec.)) : sound, black and white
Production Credits:	Photography, Ray June ; musical score, Alfred Newman ; film editor, Hugh Bennett.