The Perry Pigger Show
Year: 2005
Country: UK
Duration: 10 mins
Filed under: Xenotranplantation, Drama
"What a swine of a show we've got for you today," beams the host of The Perry Pigger Show as he calms his audience's chants of "Perryâ¦Perryâ¦.Perry." The audience is made up of a mix of pigs and humans and, as the lights go down, the spotlight falls on Susie. Susie needs a heart transplant to save her life but is having to wait for a suitable donor. Perry then introduces someone who could help called Roger ⦠who's a pig. Later we hear from Doctor Porkins who outlines some of the science. The comic elements of the plot and the jokes about people being "pig-headed" are mixed in with serious points about the ethics of cross-species transplantation and practical issues such as organ rejection.
This Biomedical Ethics Film Library is being presented in partnership with European Medical Students' Association (EMSA)
Film Topics
- Abortion (9)
- Biomedical Research (14)
- Bionics and Cyborg Technologies (8)
- Care of the Elderly and Geriatrics (3)
- Creation Identity - Sperm, Egg and Embryo Donation (22)
- Eugenics and Genetic Enhancement (37)
- Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide (28)
- Human Cloning (31)
- Human Dignity - Full Moral Status (10)
- Human Embryology (16)
- Human Genetics (14)
- Human Sexuality and Biology (1)
- Human Transplantation (17)
- Human-Nonhuman Hybrids and Chimeras (11)
- Neuroethics and the Neurobiology of Moral Responsibility (1)
- Organ Trafficking (13)
- Psychiatry (34)
- Surrogacy (5)
- Xenotranplantation (9)