Burden of Genius (2017)

In 1967, Dr. Thomas Starzl stunned the world with the first successful liver transplantation. His breakthrough provoked controversy.

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.

Cast (5)CrewGenresDetailsReleasesMediaAwards

James Redford

Self – Filmmaker, Liver Transplant Patient

Larry Kramer

Self – Writer/Activist/Liver Transplant Patient

David Crosby

Self – Musician, Liver Transplant Patient

David McCullough

Self – Author, Historian

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Arthur Caplan

Self – Professor of Bioethics, NYU

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