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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:

Casting the First Stone - imageCasting the First Stone

Focuses on six women who regularly confront each other from opposite sides of a police barricade—three believe that abortion is an inalienable right, three consider it murder.

Icarus Films | 1991 | 54 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Celling Your Soul - imageCelling Your Soul

An examination of our love/hate relationships with our digital devices from the first digitally socialized generation, and what we can do about it.

Bullfrog Films | 2017 | 48 minutes | 6 - 12, College, Adults
Centenarians Tell It Like It Is - imageCentenarians Tell It Like It Is

A select group of people have had the distinction of living in three different centuries. This video presents several individuals from this rare group.

Terra Nova Films | 1998 | 55 minutes
Changing Identities: A Story of Traumatic Injury and Art - imageChanging Identities: A Story of Traumatic Injury and Art

The metamorphosis of victims of traumatic brain injury as they redefine who they are, through art.

The Fanlight Collection | 2006 | 57 minutes
Cheshire, Ohio - imageCheshire, Ohio

Follows a community devastated by coal, starting with American Electric Power's buyout and bulldozing of this Ohio River town, after exposing them to years of harmful emissions.

Bullfrog Films | 2017 | 75 minutes
Choice Thoughts: Reflections on the Birth Control War - imageChoice Thoughts: Reflections on the Birth Control War

A look at 100 years of the fight for birth control and legalized abortion.

Women Make Movies | 1996 | 10 minutes
Cholesterol, the Great Bluff - imageCholesterol, the Great Bluff

A rigorous investigation on the cholesterol case, dealing with social, political, scientific and economical issues.

Icarus Films | 2016 | 82 minutes
Circle of Plenty - imageCircle of Plenty

John Jeavons demonstrates biointensive agriculture as a way to alleviate world hunger.

Bullfrog Films | 1987 | 28 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
City Life - A Fistful of Rice - imageCity Life - A Fistful of Rice
Protein deficiency threatens generations of children in Nepal.
Bullfrog Films | 2002 | 27 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
City Life - Brazil - imageCity Life - Brazil

Brazil has developed generic antiretroviral drugs to care for those afflicted with HIV/AIDS.

Bullfrog Films | 2002 | 27 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult

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