Burden of Genius

Release Date: 2017-01-01

Overview: In 1967, Dr. Thomas Starzl stunned the world with the first successful liver transplantation. His breakthrough provoked controversy. Critics accused him of recklessness, even murder. Others declared it the beginning of a medical revolution. "Burden of Genius" is the story of an innovator as complex and elusive as the biological secrets he unlocked. It is also a reflection on the price of scientific progress by the man many consider the greatest surgeon of the 20th century and the father of transplantation.

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Cast

James Redford

as Self – Filmmaker, Liver Transplant Patient

Larry Kramer

as Self – Writer/Activist/Liver Transplant Patient

David Crosby

as Self – Musician, Liver Transplant Patient

David McCullough

as Self – Author, Historian

Arthur Caplan

as Self – Professor of Bioethics, NYU