(Burden of Genius)

Content: In 1967, Dr. Thomas Starzl stunned the world with the first successful liver transplantation. His breakthrough provoked controversy. Critics accused him of recklessness, even murder. Others declared it the beginning of a medical revolution. "Burden of Genius" is the story of an innovator as complex and elusive as the biological secrets he unlocked. It is also a reflection on the price of scientific progress by the man many consider the greatest surgeon of the 20th century and the father of transplantation.

Countries:

United States of America

Genres:

Documentary

Runtime:

88 minutes

Year:

2017

Directors:

Tjardus Greidanus

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Production companies:

Laura Davis Productions

Actors:

Self – Filmmaker, Liver Transplant Patient

Self – Writer/Activist/Liver Transplant Patient

Self – Musician, Liver Transplant Patient

Self – Author, Historian

Self – Professor of Bioethics, NYU

Crews:

Writer

Director

Producer

Editor

Director of Photography