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:
A thoughtful look at post-partum depression, which may affect as many as one in five new mothers.
An exploration of the history and politics of breast obsession in America, and its connection with breast cancer, breastfeeding and body image.
A carefully observed and intimate documentary that follows a family during the crucial year following the death of Chayo and Jorge's father, Antonio.
The community puts its shoulder to the wheel and overcomes multinational productions to promote local farmers. Everyone gets involved to make healthy eating a common goal as well as a learning opportunity.
Investigates the Catholic Church's allegationthat condoms are unreliable and ineffective in preventing the transmission of HIV.
The challenges patients, families and health care providers face when addressing end-of-life care and decision-making.
Focuses on six women who regularly confront each other from opposite sides of a police barricade—three believe that abortion is an inalienable right, three consider it murder.
An examination of our love/hate relationships with our digital devices from the first digitally socialized generation, and what we can do about it.
A select group of people have had the distinction of living in three different centuries. This video presents several individuals from this rare group.
The metamorphosis of victims of traumatic brain injury as they redefine who they are, through art.
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