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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:

Dreams and Dilemmas (40 minute version) - imageDreams and Dilemmas (40 minute version)

Follows a couple and their premature twins during six months in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, as it explores ethical dilemmas raised by advances in neonatal medicine.

The Fanlight Collection | 2005 | 40 minutes | College/Adult/Professional
Dreams and Dilemmas - imageDreams and Dilemmas

Follows a couple and their premature twins during six months in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, as it explores ethical dilemmas raised by advances in neonatal medicine.

The Fanlight Collection | 1998 | 58 minutes | College/Adult/Professional
Dreams from the Outback - imageDreams from the Outback

Once, Australia discussed whether Aboriginals belong to fauna or to human beings. Today in the Kimberley, home to various Aboriginal communities, some have given up, but others choose to fight to bring a change for the better to their people.

First Hand Films | 2019 | 79 minutes
Drumbeat for Mother Earth - imageDrumbeat for Mother Earth

Toxic chemicals are the greatest threat to the survival of indigenous peoples.

Bullfrog Films | 2000 | 54 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
Dry Days In Dobbagunta - imageDry Days In Dobbagunta

Literacy program spurs anti-liquor campaign in rural India and empowers women.

Bullfrog Films | 1996 | 11 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
Dying for Gold - imageDying for Gold

The story of 120 years of gold mining and racial capitalism leads to disease and extreme poverty which endures into the present.

Icarus Films | 2019 | 98 minutes
Early Life 2 - In The Mayor's Footsteps - Brazil - imageEarly Life 2 - In The Mayor's Footsteps - Brazil

Mayor Amilcar Huancahuari visits Brazil to assess efforts to promote early childhood development there.

Bullfrog Films | 2011 | 26 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
Early Life 2 - In The Mayor's Footsteps - Peru - imageEarly Life 2 - In The Mayor's Footsteps - Peru

Mayor Amilcar Huancahuari is trying to convert his native Peru to his optimistic philosophy of promoting early childhood development.

Bullfrog Films | 2011 | 26 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
Earth Seasoned: #GapYear - imageEarth Seasoned: #GapYear

Diagnosed with learning difficulties, Tori finds her greatest teacher in nature, spending a "gap year" living semi-primitively with four other young women in Oregon's Cascade Mountains.

Bullfrog Films | 2018 | 75 minutes | 5 - 12, College, Adults
East of Salinas - imageEast of Salinas

Jose is an excellent student with a bright future except that he is undocumented, the child of migrant farm laborers in California's Salinas Valley.

Bullfrog Films | 2016 | 53 minutes | 7 - 12, College, Adults

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