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:
Examines the ripple effects of our actions in an interconnected world.
From award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand, COOKED reveals the ways in which class, race, and zip code predetermine unequal response and recovery to environmental disaster.
An introduction to the Copper Inuit of the Coronation Gulf region of Canada's Northwest Territories, one of the last aboriginal groups to be contacted by people from outside.
A clinical research trial at the Personalized OncoGenomics Program is changing the way scientists think about the future of cancer care.
Looks at the failure of our current sewage disposal system and presents alternatives.
After years of struggle and shame, five First Nations Canadians are bravely telling their stories about their struggle with alcoholism and the role of traditional culture in long-term sobriety.
Chronicles the decades-long cycle of destruction and despair that defines modern gang culture in South LA.
Chronicles the gravity defying life of Bill Shannon, an internationally renowned artist, breakdancer and skate punkāon crutches.
A year in the lives of three families devastated by crystal meth
In spite of the economic crisis and US embargo, the Cuban health system is an outstanding success story around the world.
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