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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:

Do Communists Have Better Sex? - imageDo Communists Have Better Sex?

In divided Germany, studies showed that East Germans enjoyed their sexual lives more than their West German counterparts. What could account for the difference?

Icarus Films | 2006 | 52 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Donka: X-Ray of an African Hospital - imageDonka: X-Ray of an African Hospital

Daily life in the largest public hospital in the Republic of Guinea

Icarus Films | 1996 | 59 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Donna's Story - imageDonna's Story

An intimate portrait of a fiercely determined survivor -- Donna, a Cree woman who left behind a bleak existence on the streets.

National Film Board of Canada | 2001 | 51 minutes
Double Life, a Short History of Sex in the USSR - imageDouble Life, a Short History of Sex in the USSR

Revisits 70 years of communist power in the Eastern Bloc through the prism of sexuality.

Icarus Films | 2017 | 52 minutes
Downwind/Downstream - imageDownwind/Downstream

Water quality for major southwest cities is threatened by mining, acid rain, urbanization.

Bullfrog Films | 1988 | 59 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult
Dr. Feelgood - imageDr. Feelgood

The case of Dr. William Hurwitz educates audiences on the complexities involved in opioid painkiller prescriptions.

Bullfrog Films | 2016 | 84 minutes | 10 - 12, College, Adults
Dreamland - imageDreamland

Takes a sharp but disarming approach in examining the romance of gambling, and reveals the decidedly unromantic reality.

Icarus Films | 2000 | 71 minutes | 7-12, 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
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

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