American Experience
Season 18 Episode 10 - The Boy in the Bubble
6.9 ?
1988
Documentary
The absorbing story of David Vetter (1971-84), who had severe combined immunodeficiency and lived inside a sterile plastic chamber for 12 years. Included: comments from his mother, Carol Ann Vetter Demaret; and from doctors, who discuss their feelings about the use of the plastic chamber. Also: examinations of the boy's birth and his death, which occurred following a bone-marrow transplant from his sister.
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The Nuremberg Trials
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Eugene O'Neill
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