Medicine
44 title(s) found.A Drop in the Ocean - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523282When Doctors without Borders, the humanitarian medical aid agency, won the Nobel Peace Prize in...
A Message from African Healers - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523305Traditional healers play a crucial role in providing health care in rural areas of many developing...
A Nurse's Opinion - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520019Nursing is a profession in crisis. Of the 250 000 nurses in Canada, more than 30 000 have left the...
Band-Aid - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521035In the remote Ojibway community of Whitedog, in northwestern Ontario, 911 is just a meaningless set...
Beauty Begins Inside - The Pressure Zone - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523358The Pressure Zone is a hilarious send-up of the forces that try to shape adolescent minds and...
Bitter Medicine, Part One: The Birth of Medicare - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524034Part one of a two-part documentary examining Canada's national health insurance system from its...
Bitter Medicine, Part Two: Medicare in Crisis - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524967Part two of a two-part documentary examining Canada's national health insurance system from its...
Canada Vignettes: Physiotherapist - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524077How a young woman physiotherapist spends much time, and a great deal of patience and care, helping...
Canadian Screen Magazine No. 4 - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523686Big Liz Brings Home 12 000 Happy Canadians: Canadian soldiers return home from Europe on the S.S...
Canadian Screen Magazine No. 6 - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525428A newsreel containing stories on "Operation Stork"--the removal of Berlin children to the country...
Charlie's Day - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527105A warning, though in comic style, that pure oxygen is a hazard, and a serious one, when handled...
Citizens' Medicine - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522180In Montréal, the St. Jacques Citizens' Committee set up a community health clinic, aided by...
Country Nurse - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB519797Anecdotes from the diary of a country nurse pay tribute to a valiant figure who has all but...
Deciphering Dyslexia - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB543138The trials and triumphs of four people facing a lifelong struggle with learning. Dyslexia is the...
Discussions in Bioethics: Critical Choice - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526119One of a series of short, open-ended dramas designed to stimulate discussion of values and ethics...
Emergency Ward - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524447A story of the emergency ward in the Montreal General Hospital.
Experienced Hands - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520305The story of the Quo Vadis School of Nursing in Toronto, which trains older women--most of them...
Faces of the Hand - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527847There is nothing more intriguing than what is hidden behind the obvious. The human hand is a...
Food and Drug Patrol - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525835The Department of National Health and Welfare rigorously tests and spot-checks food and drug...
Healing Spirit - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB520848Spiritual healing and medical technology connect in this compelling video about the human journey...
Hofmann's Potion - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524946Long before Timothy Leary urged a generation to "tune in, turn on and drop out," D-lysergic acid...
Hospital City - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB524712Most of us are born in hospitals, and most of us will die there too. But hospitals remain...
In My Own Time - Diary of a Cancer Patient - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528827In 1991, Joseph Viszmeg, an Edmonton filmmaker, was diagnosed with a rare form of adrenal cancer...
Indigenous Plant Diva - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB543924In the language of the Squamish Nation, Cease Wyss was given the name 'T'Uy'Tanat', meaning "Woman...
Interview with Linus Pauling - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528499A stimulating and provocative hour with Dr. Linus Pauling, eminent American chemist and Nobel...
My Healing Journey: Seven Years with Cancer - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522320In 1991, Edmonton filmmaker Joe Viszmeg was diagnosed with a rare form of adrenal cancer and told...
New Faces Come Back - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB522826New Faces Come Back shows the part that plastic surgery played in giving disfigured servicemen a...
Nurses Care: It's a Boy! - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525437In the maternity ward of a multicultural community hospital in Toronto, a baby is born. Nurse...
O'Siem - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525926Gene Harry is a remarkable person. A devoted husband, father and foster father, he is also an...
On Prescription Only - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB567256Modern miracle drugs cast out demons in ways never dreamed of by the witch doctor or medicine man...
One of Many--Dr. Nhan - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526855Dr. Nahn, an ethnic Chinese refugee from Vietnam, is one of the many "boat people" who emigrated to...
Poundmaker's Lodge: A Healing Place - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB528357Just north of the City of Edmonton lies Poundmaker’s Lodge, an addiction and mental-health...
Rural Health - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB521413Under Manitoba's new health plan, Health Units are set up all over the province to improve sanitary...
Spirit Doctors - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB535101Lyrical and honest, filmmaker Marie Burke journeys inward into the spiritual world of traditional...
Student Nurse - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB526200A picture of nurses-in-training at a large city hospital. The starched blue uniforms of the...
Suffer Little Children - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523817At the end of World War II there were sixty million sick and starving children in Europe. Clothes...
The Hands That Heal - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523740This film presents a broad picture of nursing activities in various parts of the country, and shows...
The Last Days of Living - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525621A film about the Palliative Care Unit of the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montréal. An...
The Puzzle of Pain - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523369The perception of pain is modified by our past experiences, our expectations and our emotional...
The Quest - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB525583A page from the life of Dr. Frederick Banting, discoverer of insulin for the treatment of diabetes...
Victorian Order of Nurses - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB527461Describes the work of the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada, showing prenatal and postnatal home...
War Against Disease - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB530949This film takes us to the forefront of the war against deadly microorganisms and lethal viruses...
Where Are You My Lovelies - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB523820Three employees of a biomedical research plant steal what they believe is synthetic heroin. They...
White Fortress - DVD
National Film Board Of Canada NFB519864A look at the impact Canada's National Health Program has had on people who might otherwise not...