C. Everett Koop

Nascimento : 1916-10-14, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Morte : 2013-02-25

História

Charles Everett Koop was an American pediatric surgeon and public health administrator. He was a vice admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, and served as the 13th Surgeon General of the United States under President Ronald Reagan from 1982 to 1989.

Filmes

Baby Parts for Sale
Himself
Join Marlin Maddoux, host of the nationally syndicated radio news talk program Point of View, for an investigation into the multi-million dollar a year baby parts trafficking industry, which is one of the most lucrative businesses in operation today. Yet most Americans are unaware of its existence. Many have heard about the controversy surrounding fetal tissue research but have no idea how the tissue is obtained. Today, some are claiming that cures for a number of devastating diseases, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, diabetes and AIDS, are just around the cornerand that fetal tissue is desperately needed for research. But is it really?
O Exorcista III
Everett Koop
O tenente Kinderman e o Padre Dyer tentam lidar com a morte de seu amigo em comum, o Padre Damien, porém, um assassino está a solta. O tenente da polícia investiga uma série de assassinatos envolvendo tortura, decapitação e profanação religiosa. Kinderman descobre que as morte têm semelhança com as praticadas pelo serial killer Gemini, um homem que morreu há quinze anos.
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
Self - Surgeon General (archive footage)
On the eve of 1987's Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, surviving families and friends of people who have died of AIDS prepare panels to be added to a large-scale memorial quilt project. Drawing from the sea of names memorialized, director Robert Epstein focuses on the lives of six people. Alongside the intimate profiles offered, through news footage and interviews, Epstein puts the AIDS crisis in the larger context of social and government response to the disease.