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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:

Love Limits - imageLove Limits

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.

The Fanlight Collection | 2010 | 41 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult
Love in the First Person - imageLove in the First Person

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.

MediaStorm | 2007 | 11 minutes | 7-12, college, adults
Luckey - imageLuckey

A portrait of a family in crisis and one man's effort to create a new life in the wake of a devastating accident.

The Fanlight Collection | 2008 | 84 minutes
Lunch Love Community - imageLunch Love Community

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.

Bullfrog Films | 2015 | 78 minutes | 7 - 12, College, Adults
Made Over in America - imageMade Over in America

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?

Icarus Films | 2007 | 65 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult
Mademoiselle and the Doctor - imageMademoiselle and the Doctor

A profile of Dr. Lisette Nigot, proponent of the right-to-die, and counsellor to those who want control over their own deaths.

Icarus Films | 2004 | 55 minutes | 11-12, College, Adult
Making Babies - imageMaking Babies

A critical look at reproductive technology.

National Film Board of Canada | 2004 | 51 minutes
Making Mothers - imageMaking Mothers

Profile of the Family Health and Birth Center in Washington, D.C. which primarily serves and is likewise staffed by the African American community.

The Fanlight Collection | 2009 | 20 minutes | 8-12, College, Adult
Making Perfect Babies - imageMaking Perfect Babies

A critical examination of the issues surrounding the genetic manipulation human embryos.

National Film Board of Canada | 1992 | 45 minutes
Marco - imageMarco

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.

Kartemquin Films | 1970 | 80 minutes

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