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New! TEDTalks: Ivan Oransky—Are We Over-Medicalized?
Item# 53001
© 2012
10 Min.
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Reuters health editor Ivan Oransky warns that we're suffering from an epidemic of preposterous preconditions—pre-diabetes, pre-cancer, and many more. In this engaging talk from TEDMED, he shows how he...
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New! TEDTalks: Jon Ronson—Strange Answers to The Psychopath Test
Item# 53022
© 2012
18 Min.
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Is there a definitive line that divides crazy from sane? With a hair-raising delivery, Jon Ronson, author of The Psychopath Test, illuminates the gray areas between the two in this TEDTalk. Ronson is...
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New! An Investigation into Depleted Uranium
Item# 52385
© 2012
52 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-555-0
For 20 years, scientists, doctors, and activists—including some veterans—have denounced the use of depleted uranium in military and civilian technology, citing a wide range of negative health conseque...
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Unforgotten: 25 Years After Willowbrook
Item# 53106
© 2012
111 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-511-6
In 1972, a young TV reporter named Geraldo Rivera exposed the horrific abuse of mentally disabled children at the Willowbrook State School in Staten Island, New York. This program contains Rivera’s...
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Case Management in Health Care
Item# 49961
© 2012
15 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62290-783-0
Case management is becoming a prominent and successful tool of modern health care. Putting the client firmly at the center of a collaborative process, it can be mediated by doctors, social workers, nu...
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Positive Youth: The Face of HIV Is the Human Face
Item# 50430
© 2012
44 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62290-840-0
Filmed in the U.S. and Canada, this documentary puts a human face on the new reality of living with HIV by introducing viewers to four very open, very dynamic individuals who are either HIV-infected o...
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Building the Perfect Bug: Virology, Rogue Science, and Bioterrorism
Item# 49267
© 2012
26 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62290-631-4
Why did Dutch virologist Ron Fouchier and his team of researchers purposely engineer a lethal, airborne bird flu virus? That’s the first of many questions raised in this timely, eye-opening investigat...
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Moyers & Company: Donald Trump's Callous Capitalism
Item# 50561
© 2012
34 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62290-613-0
In this edition of Moyers & Company, Bill Moyers talks with independent filmmaker Anthony Baxter, director of You’ve Been Trumped, a documentary about the perils of rampant capitalism and gluttono...
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Seven Wonders of the Microbe World Video Clip Collection
Item# 48995
© 2012
26 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62290-224-8
What are microbes, scientifically speaking, and are they our friends? Our enemies? Or is “it’s complicated” the best way to describe the relationship? Organized into seven concise segments, each focus...
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New to Our Collection! Haiti: Where Did the Money Go?
Item# 53086
© 2011
51 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-714-1
After a 7.0 earthquake brutalized Haiti in January of 2010, Americans donated a stunning $1.4 billion to major charities. Ten months later, filmmaker Michele Mitchell went to the Caribbean nation to o...
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