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Ethical Dilemmas
All in One Basket (443)
Follows three women through the process of paid egg donation, to explore ethical questions about the use of hormones, genetic selection for preferred physical traits, the role of money in reproductive medicine, and informed consent. (22 minutes)
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Banking Our Genes (155)
Invites viewers to think about the ethical, public policy, and privacy issues involved in the collection and banking of DNA data about individuals. (33 minutes)
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Bevel Up: Drugs, Users & Outreach Nursing (487)
How can nurses deliver effective and compassionate healthcare to drug users? This compelling documentary follows a team of "street nurses" as they reach out to prevent AIDS and other STDs by going directly to the young people, sex workers, and homeless men and women living in the alleys, shelters, and skid row hotels of the inner city. (45 minutes)
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Breakaway (318)
This provocative documentary tells the story of the conflicted relationship between two men coping with the consequences of severe, traumatic brain injury. (45 minutes)
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The Burden of Knowledge (260)
Seven couples, healthcare and genetic specialists, and others explore the ethical and emotional implications of prenatal testing for genetic defects. (54 minutes)
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Buying Time (133)
Should media campaigns (in this case, soliciting contributions to pay for bone marrow transplants) be allowed to influence the allocation of precious healthcare resources? (27 minutes)
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Caring at the End of Life (328)
Based on six case studies of seriously ill hospitalized patients, this moving film focuses on the key roles of nursing staff in improving patient-clinician communication in end-of-life care. (45 minutes)
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Caring at the End of Life Series (910)
This three-part series deals with end-of-life care and decision making in the hospital, through profiles of several severely ill patients and the staff who deal with them. (75 minutes)
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A Chance to Grow (317)
Follows three families whose babies are in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Their stories demonstrate the capacity of ordinary individuals to adapt to crises with extraordinary grace and courage. (53 minutes)
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Claire's Story (427)
Claire is a nurse but, she says, "I've learned some things since I was the patient." When the physician gave her the diagnosis of ovarian cancer, she understood the words, "but I couldn't hear anything he was saying." One in a series of brief, one-character dramas created by two nurse-educators. (17 minutes)
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Code Gray (004)
Academy Award nominee for Best Short Documentary. Explores four open-ended cases in which nurses confront serious ethical dilemmas in their day-to-day work. (26 minutes)
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Deception (034)
A nurse and physician confront the hospital's ethics committee with their conflict over whether to withhold the truth about their patient's condition. (34 minutes)
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Discussing Advance Directives (358)
A nursing team and physician meet to discuss the difficulties they encounter in working with patients on advance directives. Part of the Caring at the End of Life series. (15 minutes)
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Dreams and Dilemmas (251)
Follows a couple and their premature twins during six months in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, as it explores ethical dilemmas raised by advances in neonatal medicine. (58 minutes)
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Dreams and Dilemmas DVD Set (913)
Two DVD Set. Follows a couple and their premature twins during six months in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, as it explores ethical dilemmas raised by advances in neonatal medicine. (40 minutes)
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Ethics Thru Drama (802)
A powerful and evocative series of short, one-character dramas created by two nurse-educators, and designed to focus discussion on complex ethical issues in end-of-life care. (54 minutes)
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Everyday Choices (385)
Through the story of one young visiting nurse and her elderly patient, Gerardo, this challenging documentary explores personal, professional, and ethical dilemmas faced by nurses working in home care and community settings. (28 minutes)
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A Fate Worse than Death? (076)
Families and caregivers confront the heartrending decision of whether to withdraw artificial life supports from loved ones in a coma or vegetative state. (50 minutes)
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First Do No Harm (368)
'Intersex' describes conditions in which a person is born with mixed or ambiguous sexual anatomy. This video argues for a new understanding of this condition and for a new, patient-centered standard of care. (20 minutes)
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From Rules to Caring Practices (332)
This training package addresses ethical issues faced by frontline home care and adult daycare workers providing services to the elderly. (16 minutes)
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Givin' It Up (491)
This disturbing documentary explores the lives of three convicted sex offenders between the ages of 15 and 17 (two male, one female), all of whom were themselves sexually abused when they were younger. Their victims were children as young as four. It examines approaches to the treatment of sexual offenders while acknowledging the challenge of balancing rehabilitation with community safety. (29 minutes)
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The Good Egg (391)
Becoming a paid egg donor: it started as a way to finance her first film, but became an engaging journey through some of the personal and ethical realities of today's reproductive technology. (30 minutes)
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Grave Words (224)
Blends humor, music and insight in an entertaining primer for physicians and other healthcare providers who need to talk with patients about end-of-life decisions. (25 minutes)
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Help Me Die (075)
Explores the controversial subject of euthanasia, through the stories of people who seek to end their pain through suicide, and others who choose hospice care. (48 minutes)
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In Our Midst (356)
Neonatal intensive care units save thousands of infant lives each year. This film profiles a family whose children are all "graduates" of the NICU, and explores the impact of medical technology on their lives. (56 minutes)
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Karen Refugees: Fleeing Burma’s Forgotten War (496)
A courageous band of “backpack medics” slips through the jungle, avoiding army checkpoints, to deliver medical supplies and care to their people, the Karen minority of Burma. The limited services they provide are the only medical care available in this war-torn region. (0 minutes)
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Life Support Decisions (183)
Will help elders, and their families and caregivers, to understand their rights and options regarding life-support technologies and end-of-life care and decision making. (50 minutes)
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More than a Failing Heart (355)
Family members describe examples of the best of end-of-life care, and of the worst, and reveal how competent and compassionate physicians and nurses can change the end-of-life experience. (25 minutes)
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One in 2000 (459)
Each year an estimated one in two thousand babies are born with anatomy that doesn't clearly mark them as either male or female. This provocative documentary demystifies the issue through intimate and sympathetic profiles of people born with intersex conditions who are living "ordinary" and productive lives. (26 minutes)
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Professional Choices (187)
Actual case scenarios challenge social workers to explore the sometimes fine line between sound ethical practice and professional misconduct. Not Available for Rental (40 minutes)
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The Right to Decide (121)
Informed by the Patient Self-Determination Act, these outstanding physician-patient interviews explore patients' hopes, fears, and goals regarding end-of-life care. (43 minutes)
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Self Deliverance (322)
This unflinching portrait was filmed in Australia's Northern Territory, where Parliament was debating the world's first legislation guaranteeing terminally ill people the right to a physician-assisted death. It includes articulate testimony from physicians on both sides of this controversial issue, but its primary focus is on one courageous man's determination to confront death in his own way. (18 minutes)
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Sheila's Story (426)
Homeless, poor, and HIV positive, Sheila lacks the social supports, including insurance, that might help her face terminal illness with some kind of dignity. Yet she struggles to "celebrate who I am: a loudmouth and a caretaker." One in a series of brief, one-character dramas created by two nurse-educators. (19 minutes)
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Stanley (357)
This disturbing case study raises complex issues about medical prognosis and religious belief in end-of-life decision-making. Part of the Caring at the End of Life series. (15 minutes)
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Still Life (345)
Explores the emotional relationship between medical students in anatomy courses and the cadavers which make it possible for them to learn about the human body. The film includes a discussion of body donation. (27 minutes)
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To Choose No Harm (184)
Two healthcare teams must resolve conflicts between the wishes of dying patients and family members, and their own beliefs and clinical judgements. The cases are also discussed by the hospital ethics committee. (45 minutes)
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Tricia's Story (425)
A breast cancer patient confronts difficult moral and spiritual issues as she comes to grips with the fact that her illness is terminal. One in a series of brief, one-character dramas created by two nurse-educators. (18 minutes)
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Two Films On End-Of-Life Issues (914)
Help Me Die explores the controversial subject of euthanasia, and the issues involved when terminally ill loved ones ask a physician or family member for help in dying (48 minutes.) A Fate Worse than Death? follows several families who must decide whether to withdraw artificial life support from a loved one in a coma or vegetative state (50 Minutes.) (98 minutes)
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