Film Introduction
The eight-episode television documentary 200 Years of Surgery, is the first documentary in China which sheds light on humankind’s resistance against diseases from the perspective of surgeons. It is striven to convey the historical development of science on humanitarian grounds. It has eight episodes with 50 minutes of each part which mainly concerns the following subjects, that is, the development of anatomy, anesthesia ，sterilization and hemostasis, the opening of abdomen, head and heart, transplant, cancer and the future of surgery,etc.
It takes the crew three years to film these important medical museums, hospitals and medical institutions from Britain, America, Germany, France, Italy, Hungary, Turkey,India etc. Meanwhile more than fifty top experts have been interviewed to present the development and future prospect of surgery.
