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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:

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
Holy Smoke - imageHoly Smoke
Buddhist monks lead anti-tobacco campaign in Cambodia.
Bullfrog Films | 2002 | 27 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
Missing Out - imageMissing Out
Anemia threatens the population of Niger and Tanzania.
Bullfrog Films | 2002 | 27 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
Patently Obvious - imagePatently Obvious
International patent regulations only protect multinationals.
Bullfrog Films | 2002 | 27 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
Paying the Price - imagePaying the Price
Pharmaceutical companies block generic drugs, threatening the lives of millions of Africans with AIDS.
Bullfrog Films | 2002 | 27 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult

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