Touch
By: a BBC/Discovery Channel co-production ; produced and directed by Nigel Paterson
Contributors: BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc; Discovery Channel (Firm); Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Series: Human senses
Publisher: Films for the Humanites & Sciences
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 30
Subjects: Touch; Pain; Documentary television programs; Science television programs; Educational films
Description: Calculates the different sensitivities of the body's most receptive parts; the density of touch sensors in skin  explains why some parts of the body have a lower pain threshold,  and demonstrates the brain's role in the experience of physical pain through experiments with electric shocks, painkillers, and hypnosis.
Notes: Originally produced in 2003.

Presenter: Nigel Marven.

DVD.
Table of contents: title: Getting touchy; title: Skin deep; title: Head, shoulders, knees, and toes; title: A shocking discovery; title: Head aches; title: The torture test.