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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:

Midwives...Lullabies...and Mother Earth - imageMidwives...Lullabies...and Mother Earth

Fascinating look at pioneering natural birth doctor, Michel Odent.

Bullfrog Films | 1993 | 52 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Mikmaq Family - imageMikmaq Family
A reflective journey into the extended family of Nova Scotian Mi'kmaq society.
National Film Board of Canada | 1996 | 32 minutes
Money and Medicine (New Edition) - imageMoney and Medicine (New Edition)

An investigation of the dangers the nation faces from runaway health care spending as well as the dangers patients face from over-diagnosis and over-treatment.

Bullfrog Films | 2012 | 84 minutes | 10 - 12, College, Adults
Montana de Luz - imageMontana de Luz

The children of the Montana de Luz orphanage in Honduras are HIV positive, and a living testament to the beauty and innocence of childhood. This is a stirring portrait of a loving community.

The Fanlight Collection | 2008 | 40 minutes
More Than Horseplay - imageMore Than Horseplay

Explores the intersection of therapy and research of children with cerebral palsy as they grow in self-confidence and physical capability through participation in 'hippotherapy,' or physiotherapy involving horseback riding.

The Fanlight Collection | 2008 | 27 minutes
More Than Human - imageMore Than Human

With nanotechnology medicine could evolve from treating disease to a practice that is predictive, personalized and preemptive.

Bullfrog Films | 2013 | 45 minutes | 9-12, College, Adults
More Than a Thousand Tomorrows - imageMore Than a Thousand Tomorrows

A follow-up to the video, A Thousand Tomorrows, More Than A Thousand Tomorrows revisits one of the couples, Everett and Betty Jordan and looks at the changes Alzheimer's causes in their intimate relationship.

Terra Nova Films | 2003 | 22 minutes
Mortal Lessons - imageMortal Lessons

Two extraordinary women face death head on

The Fanlight Collection | 2008 | 57 minutes
Mothers - imageMothers

Mothers is a gripping cinema verite documentary that shows how China's one-child policy plays out in the daily lives of women in a northern Chinese village.

dGenerate Films | 2013 | 68 minutes | 8-12, COLLEGE, ADULT
Ms. Conceptions - imageMs. Conceptions

A look at single thirty-something women who are choosing artificial insemination as the route to motherhood, as well as the industry that has grown up to serve them.

Icarus Films | 1995 | 56 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult

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