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Issues in Health Care

This series addresses three major controversial issues in the area of health and medicine—the use and abuse of designer drugs; genetic engineering; and the politicization of health research. 3-part series, 30 minutes each.



 
    

Item#: BVL7927
Copyright date: ©1998



The Series Includes : Designer Drugs: Prescriptions for Happiness? | Genetic Engineering: The Double-Edged Sword | Medical Research: The Celebrity Edge
     
DVD $299.85


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AIDS: Answers and Breakthroughs

At the start of the new millennium, close to half a million Americans have already died of AIDS. This detailed two-part series presents the latest research in the race to halt what is even now being called the defining disease of the 21st century. Gr...(more details)
 
DVD $299.90
Sound or Silence: The Debate over Cochlear Implants
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Thousands of Deaf people have had their hearing restored by a revolutionary device called a cochlear implant, which bypasses the damaged part of the ear to transmit digitally processed sound directly into the cochlea. Since it is advantageous to have...(more details)
 
DVD $149.95
DVD + 3-Year Streaming $224.93
3-Year Streaming $149.95
What Are Health Maintenance Organizations?

This program examines how HMOs differ from traditional forms of health insurance, why employers are offering this alternative, and what their advantages are. The program profiles a major hotel chain that is setting up 65 HMOs across the country; comp...(more details)
 
DVD $99.95
Enhanced Vision: New Directions in Ophthalmology
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As this program illustrates, direct access to the eye coupled with technological wizardry has meant that ophthalmology is one of the most rapidly advancing areas of medicine. Both up-to-the-minute techniques and experimental procedures are profiled, ...(more details)
 
DVD $169.95
DVD + 3-Year Streaming $254.93
3-Year Streaming $169.95


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