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English
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Part searing indictment of our healthcare system, part generational family memoir, part call to action, a physician and thought leader on bias and racism in healthcare recounts her journey to finally seizing her own power as a health equity advocate against the backdrop of the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement.
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English
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What was it like to be that patient caught in a medical crisis that sparked a medical milestone? First Patients reads with the pace and excitement of a top-notch medical thriller, providing an enthralling view into the history of medicine and revealing the extent of human inventiveness, resilience, and compassion. Often marked by the desperate need to save human lives, developments in medicine have invariably started with patients--people whose ordeals...
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
This insider documentary chronicles the efforts of whistleblower Ralph W. Moss, PhD to expose a major cancer research center's attempt during the 1970s to conceal the true effectiveness of laetrile, an experimental, low-cost cancer drug.
6) No Limits
Publisher
Filmhub, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Shot over 25 years, NO LIMITS is a ‘7 Up’ inspired long form narrative documentary that follows the lives of our disabled protagonists over the course of decades, and reveals how changes in societies attitudes to disability have affected them. This is a continuation of director John Zaritsky's research on thalidomide, its effect on survivors, and their fight for justice.
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English
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"The intertwined histories of booze and medicine, from internationally-renowned cocktail expert Camper English. Alcohol and medicine have an inextricably intertwined history, with innovations in each altering the path of the other. The story stretches back to the ancient world, when beer and wine were used to provide nutrition, hydration, and act as solvents for healing botanicals. Over time, alchemists distilled elixirs designed to cure all diseases,...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Discover how the 1900 outbreak of bubonic plague set off fear and anti-Asian sentiment in San Francisco. A fascinating medical mystery and timely examination of the relationship between the medical community, city powerbrokers and the Chinese-American community, PLAGUE AT THE GOLDEN GATE tells the gripping story of the race against time to save San Francisco and the nation from the deadly plague.
Publisher
Vision Maker Media
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A deeply personal family film that follows Kate Beane, an urban, Dakota scholar, and her family as they trace the remarkable life of their celebrated relative, Ohiyesa (Charles Eastman), an important author, activist, lecturer, and one of the first Native American doctors. Along the way, Beane uncovers uncanny parallels between their lives, though they were born more than 100 years apart.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Guided by key artifacts at the Smithsonian, see how grassroots efforts, social activism, and the care and determination of the American people helped fund a cure for polio, led to birth control for women, and combatted the bias against those with AIDS.
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Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
Description
Beginning with opium, the "joy plant, " which has been used for 10,000 years, Hager tells a captivating story of medicine. His subjects include the largely forgotten female pioneer who introduced smallpox inoculation to Britain, the infamous knockout drops, the first antibiotic, which saved countless lives, the first antipsychotic, which helped empty public mental hospitals, Viagra, statins, and the new frontier of monoclonal antibodies. This is a...
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English
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"This wryly humorous collection of stories about bizarre medical treatments and cases offers a unique portrait of Victorian medicine in all its grisly weirdness. A puzzling series of dental explosions beginning in the nineteenth century, with the most recent case in the 1960s, is just one of many strange tales that have long lain undiscovered in the pages of old medical journals. Award-winning medical historian Thomas Morris has assembled the stories...
Publisher
TVF
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The prevailing narrative of the Covid-19 outbreak has been that it all started in a wet market in Wuhan. Any suggestion that it was too much of a coincidence that the epicentre of the pandemic was a virology lab that had been experimenting with coronaviruses, was dismissed as propaganda or conspiracy theory. Governments, leading scientists and major media outlets in China, Europe and the USA, all supported the notion that this was a natural evolutionary...
Publisher
The Orchard
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The recent outbreak of Ebola in West Africa was one of the most deadly health epidemics in recent history. Sierra Leone was the hardest hit by the virus. However, the story of Ebola isn’t just one of mass death; it’s a story of the first responders rushing in to face insurmountable odds, of brothers in arms refusing to quit when all seemed lost. While the 24-hour news stoked fears of the Ebola virus, these true-life heroes sprinted into this war...
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