Video Selections
for Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism
Video Set on Health and Disease
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Pandemic (a possible look
of the future): An interesting
documentary that shows the effects of a
possible future outbreak of avian flu and how
it would spread across the world 1hr 28 min |
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Michael Moore's Sicko on
Democracy Now -part 1:
Michael
Moore sites down with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now
and discusses his film Sicko.
The film is a seething indictment of the US
healthcare system. It focuses not on the more than
40 million people who don't have healthcare but on
the 250 million who do - many of whom are abandoned
by the very health insurance industry they paid into
for decades.
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High Cost of Medicine - Marketing Disease/Pushing Drugs: part 1 A documentary on the reasons why drugs are often priced out of the reach of many Americans and most of the world's population. |
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Drug Parody - Ask Your Doctor 1:06 |
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Remembering the 1918 Flu Epidemic: Remembering the
1918 Spanish Flu epidemic and how lessons can be applied to
modern flu pandemics. The documentary focuses on the impact of
the 1918 epidemic in the African-American community in Baltimore,
MD. 25 min |
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