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:
Highlights Sanger's pioneering strategies of using media and popular culture to advance the cause of birth control.
Giuseppe Marinoni, champion cyclist and master bike craftsman, at age 75, is attempting the world hour record for his age group, on a bike he built with his own hands almost 40 years ago.
In 2007, musician Kathryn Calder (of The New Pornographers) receives devastating news: her mother, Lynn, has two to three years left to live. She has ALS. A Matter of Time is a heart-breaking yet hopeful film that examines the power of love and music, and the inspiration, salvation, and possibility that occurs when these two forces intersect with the most challenging moment in a young musician’s life.
The coming-of-age story of Mark Puddington, a teenager with multiple disabilities
McLIBEL is the story of two ordinary people who humbled McDonald's in the biggest corporate PR disaster in history.
Follows Dr. Uma Valeti, co-founder and CEO of leading "cultivated" meat startup Upside Foods, as he and his team develop and perfect a game-changing solution to a global, unsustainable hunger for meat.
Explores the abortion debate in South Dakota, with both sides claiming compassion for women and the same desire to stop the need for abortion.
Fascinating look at pioneering natural birth doctor, Michel Odent.
An investigation of the dangers the nation faces from runaway health care spending as well as the dangers patients face from over-diagnosis and over-treatment.
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