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.
The Docuseek Health and Health Care Collection includes the following titles:
Two people with intellectual disabilities and cerebral palsy are united in their commitment to each other and to living their lives with dignity and grace.
At twenty, College Photographer of the Year winner Matt Eich has maturity dropped on his lap: his world-class career takes off, just as his girlfriend becomes pregnant. Together, they document their budding lives, as they grapple with some very grown-up choices.
A portrait of a family in crisis and one man's effort to create a new life in the wake of a devastating accident.
Passion, creative energy and persistence come together when Berkeley advocates and educators tackle food reform and food justice in the schools and in the neighborhoods.
In a culture where bodies seem customizable, how do we perceive body image, and how are desires for a better self influenced by reality television and the makeover industry?
A profile of Dr. Lisette Nigot, proponent of the right-to-die, and counsellor to those who want control over their own deaths.
A critical look at reproductive technology.
Profile of the Family Health and Birth Center in Washington, D.C. which primarily serves and is likewise staffed by the African American community.
A critical examination of the issues surrounding the genetic manipulation human embryos.
Disbelief, shock, hostility and superstition confronted the wife of one of the filmmakers when she decided to give birth without pain medication using the Lamaze method of childbirth.
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