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:
Deciding Vote shares the now-forgotten story of how New York State Assemblyman George Michaels defied his conservative and religious constituents by casting the critical tie-breaking vote on a bill which legalized abortion in the state of New York, laying the groundwork for Roe v Wade.
Scientists, physicians, and survivors of cardiac arrest explore the liminal space between life and death, breaking down these stunning scientific breakthroughs to tell the remarkable, scientific story of what happens after we die.
In April 1918, while Europe was plunged into WWI, an extremely virulent flu swept across every continent. Wrongly called "Spanish flu", it raged for two years, causing the death of more than 50 million people before disappearing and falling into oblivion.
6 months on the front line of war with a Ukrainian medical unit.
Art and Ritual as Transformative Tools: Women as agents of change.
Honoring a girls' entrance into womanhood.
The daily lives and isolation of a group of men locked on one floor of a Chinese city's psychiatric institution.
Legendary filmmaker-photographer Raymond Depardon chronicles the patients of a psychiatric ward where justice and madness meet.
The story of how the world's top decision makers knowingly failed to prevent the spread of the AIDS epidemic.
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