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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:

Bundle of Blues - imageBundle of Blues

A thoughtful look at post-partum depression, which may affect as many as one in five new mothers.

The Fanlight Collection | 2005 | 13 minutes | College/Adult/Professional
Busting Out - imageBusting Out

An exploration of the history and politics of breast obsession in America, and its connection with breast cancer, breastfeeding and body image.

Bullfrog Films | 2005 | 57 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Cafe - imageCafe

A carefully observed and intimate documentary that follows a family during the crucial year following the death of Chayo and Jorge's father, Antonio.

Icarus Films | 2014 | 80 minutes
Cafeteria - imageCafeteria

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.

National Film Board of Canada | 2015 | 24 minutes | 4-12, PS
Can Condoms Kill? - imageCan Condoms Kill?

Investigates the Catholic Church's allegationthat condoms are unreliable and ineffective in preventing the transmission of HIV.

Bullfrog Films | 2005 | 45 minutes | College, Adult
Caring at the End of Life - imageCaring at the End of Life

The challenges patients, families and health care providers face when addressing end-of-life care and decision-making.

The Fanlight Collection | 2001 | 45 minutes | College/Adult/Professional
Casting the First Stone - imageCasting the First Stone

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.

Icarus Films | 1991 | 54 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Celling Your Soul - imageCelling Your Soul

An examination of our love/hate relationships with our digital devices from the first digitally socialized generation, and what we can do about it.

Bullfrog Films | 2017 | 48 minutes | 6 - 12, College, Adults
Centenarians Tell It Like It Is - imageCentenarians Tell It Like It Is

A select group of people have had the distinction of living in three different centuries. This video presents several individuals from this rare group.

Terra Nova Films | 1998 | 55 minutes
Changing Identities: A Story of Traumatic Injury and Art - imageChanging Identities: A Story of Traumatic Injury and Art

The metamorphosis of victims of traumatic brain injury as they redefine who they are, through art.

The Fanlight Collection | 2006 | 57 minutes

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