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The Fanlight Collection

The Fanlight Collection has a special focus on healthcare, mental health, professional ethics, aging and gerontology, disabilities, the workplace, and gender and family issues.

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The Fanlight Collection includes the following titles:

Code Gray - imageCode Gray

Academy Award nominee for Best Short Documentary. Explores four open-ended cases in which nurses confront serious ethical dilemmas in their day-to-day work.

The Fanlight Collection | 1983 | 26 minutes | College/Adult/Professional
Community Voices - imageCommunity Voices

A multi-cultural array of patients, clinicians, and other healthcare workers explore the many ways that differences in culture, race and ethnicity affect health and the delivery of healthcare services.

The Fanlight Collection | 2001 | 69 minutes | College/Adult/Professional
Crystal Fear, Crystal Clear - imageCrystal Fear, Crystal Clear

A year in the lives of three families devastated by crystal meth

The Fanlight Collection | 2005 | 45 minutes
Dear Dr. Spencer - imageDear Dr. Spencer

The story of Dr. Robert Douglas Spencer, who, in addition to providing routine care to his rural Pennsylvania town, also helped women with, what at the time were illegal, abortions.

Icarus Films | 1998 | 25 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Death On Request - imageDeath On Request

Controversial documentary records the last days - and actual death - of a Dutch man who chose euthanasia to end his suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Icarus Films | 1994 | 57 minutes | College, Adult
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
Edges of Perception - imageEdges of Perception

Eleven-year-old Jessica copes with Stargardt's, an inherited form of macular degeneration.

The Fanlight Collection | 2007 | 14 minutes
Encounters with Grief - imageEncounters with Grief

Moving perspectives on coping with the death of loved ones, and the process of recovery

The Fanlight Collection | 1992 | 13 minutes | College/Adult/Professional
Epilepsy: The Untold Story - imageEpilepsy: The Untold Story

'This program focuses on people who experience complex partial seizures, and whose symptoms are frequently misdiagnosed as psychiatric or emotional disorders.'

The Fanlight Collection | 1993 | 27 minutes | College/Adult/Professional

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