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 collection includes the following titles:
Determined not to become another statistic of the Black maternal health crisis, JaneƩ Washington and her husband Josh choose the rare option of hiring an experienced midwife and doula and planning to give birth at home, away from the hospital and all of its interventions. But the baby has other plans. This is the story of the birth of one baby, with its family caught between two very different approaches to childbirth.
A divorced funeral director swipes his way through diminishing prospects on Tinder. An employee prepares his father for a final goodbye.
Four Paths to Dignity profiles the pursuit of dignity for Guatemalan midwives.
This is the first film ever made about the struggle for abortion rights in the U.S.
This inspiring documentary looks at nursing from the nurse's point of view.
Realizing the extreme inadequacy of local information on AIDS prevention, cosmetologist DiAna DiAna, with her partner Dr. Bambi Sumpter, took on the task of educating the Black community in Columbia, South Carolina.
Palestinian-born video and performance artist Mona Hatoum explores the renewal of friendship between mother and daughter during a brief family reunion in war-torn Lebanon in 1981.
LOVE THE SINNER is a personal documentary exploring the connection between Christianity and homophobia in the wake of the 2016 shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando.
Produced by the Academy Award winning filmmakers of In The Shadows of the Stars, DIALOGUES WITH MADWOMEN is a ground-breaking film about women and mental illness.
This extraordinary documentary provides rare insights into some important health issues for African American women.
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