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The Docuseek Health and Health Care Collection

THE HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE COLLECTION features over 400 award-winning films on health, healthcare and medicine from the leading distributors of social-issue and documentary film. Films address addiction and substance abuse, aging, death and dying, disabilities, economics of healthcare, environmental health, ethics, healthcare delivery, history of medicine, illness, disease and disorders, maternal and child health, psychology and mental health, public health, nursing, nutrition, sexuality, and more. Docuseek films examine health and healthcare in its social and historical context; essential resources for helping students to respond better to the challenges of today.

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The Docuseek Health and Health Care Collection includes the following titles:

A Healthy Start - imageA Healthy Start
The debate over women's health care in South Africa.
Bullfrog Films | 1996 | 11 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
A Man's Place - imageA Man's Place

Confronted with unforeseen pregnancies and, in most cases, abortions, men reveal their feelings and thoughts.

Icarus Films | 2017 | 58 minutes
A Map of the Mind Fields: Managing Adolescent Psychosis - imageA Map of the Mind Fields: Managing Adolescent Psychosis
Understanding psychosis in teens, and possible solutions.
National Film Board of Canada | 2005 | 57 minutes
A Mother Never Gives up Hope - imageA Mother Never Gives up Hope

Candid stories of four older women who are dealing with abuse at the hands of an adult son.

Terra Nova Films | 2009 | 42 minutes
A Normal Girl - imageA Normal Girl

A NORMAL GIRL brings the widely unknown struggles of intersex people to light through the story of intersex activist Pidgeon Pagonis.

Women Make Movies | 2020 | 14 minutes
A Sentence for Two - imageA Sentence for Two

The film contrasts the stories of prison inmates who are forced to give their newborn baby up with a prison nursery where infants spend the first year of life alongside their mothers.

The Fanlight Collection | 2008 | 58 minutes
A Shadow Remains - imageA Shadow Remains

Phillip Toledano’s life is marked by the passing of family. His unique, yet universal, experience delves deeply into questions of identity, and the ability to manage death in an honest and often humorous manner.

MediaStorm | 2012 | 30 minutes | 7-12, college, adults
A Tail of Identity - imageA Tail of Identity

An honest, humorous film about three "furries": people who feel, deep-down inside, that being human actually constrains who they are, and they prefer dressing up as animal characters.

MediaStorm | 2009 | 9 minutes | 7-12, college, adults
A Thousand More - imageA Thousand More

A family is determined to give their disabled son a whole and vital life. In the midst of a great burden, one small child — with a seemingly endless supply of love — is the blessing that holds a family together.

MediaStorm | 2011 | 13 minutes | 4-12, college, adults
A Thousand Tomorrows: Intimacy, Sexuality and Alzheimer's - imageA Thousand Tomorrows: Intimacy, Sexuality and Alzheimer's

An exploration of the changes that Alzheimer's disease has on intimacy and sexuality.

Terra Nova Films | 1995 | 31 minutes

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