Past Programs
Doctors and Medical Professionals - 2003
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Marsat Ketchell: Keeping the Torres Strait Healthy
01/06/2003
Marsat Ketchell joins Natasha Mitchell in conversation. Born and bred on Thursday Island in the Torres Strait, Marsat left home at the tender age of 15 to join the Royal Australian Navy. After 26 years of service he returned to his island home to become the first ever mental health worker, indigenous or non-indigenous, to be permanently based in the Torres Strait and Northern Cape York Peninsular region. Now he's part of a team keeping islanders healthy in body and mind.
Summer Series 6: Brain Death
02/02/2003
The organ transplant industry has given life to thousands of people. But it has also given us a new type of human: the beating heart cadaver, whose cerebral functions have shut down, but whose blood is still circulating in order to keep vital organs fresh. Until the early 1970s, such a person would have been considered alive. But since the concept of brain death was introduced, we now have to grapple with a new set of ethical questions and a new understanding of what it means to be human.
