Videos

The following videos have been produced with the sponsorship of the Ethics Institute and are available for purchase. Purchase information is listed below each video description.

In Our Midst: Exploring the Long Term Impacts of Neonatal Intensive Care

Each year, the lives of thousands of premature newborns are saved by neonatal intensive care. The press and broadcast media celebrates these "miracle babies." But what is life like for the children, who often leave the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) with multiple medical problems and developmental challenges? What is life like for their families? Filmmaker Richard Kahn spent almost a year following one such family. Their four children (three natural; one adopted) are all "graduates" of the NICU, and they represent a range of outcomes from unimpaired survival to serious physical and learning deficits. Capturing the family's extraordinary mutual devotion as well as the burdens of an unending regimen of care, In Our Midst provides a glimpse into the little explored impact of modern medical technology.

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Outcomes of Neonatal Care: A Cinéma Vérité Video

Dreams and Dilemmas: The Practice of Neonatal Care.

Produced by Richard Kahn and sponsored by the Ethics Institute at Dartmouth College and the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, with a grant from the Greenwall Foundation.

Advances in neonatal medicine have dramatically improved the survival chances of premature infants, yet survival can come at a high cost: many such infants experience severe and often life threatening health problems, and their parents and caregivers may confront enormously difficulty and troubling decisions. In this compelling new cinema verite documentary, award winning filmmakers Richard Kahn follows one couple and their premature twin sons over the course of six month in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of Dartmouth Hitchock Medical Center. Without narration or preaching, it allows viewers to experience and share intensely difficulty dilemmas confronted by the parents and by their nurses, physicians, social workers and hospital chaplain. Dreams and Dilemmas is designed to educate parents, caregivers and students about the ethical and professional challenges—as well as the profound human issues—which arises in this demanding area of health care. It will be a powerful tool for discussion for health care consumers, as well as for students and clinicians in all of the health and social service professions.

Silver Award at World Fest (Houston)
Houston International Film Festival

58 minutes
Video purchase: $249
Rental: $75 per day
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Mind Talk: The Brain's New Story

Mind Talk: The Brain's New STory (1998) is a co-production of film makers Bob Drake and Wendy Conquest. This 57 minute video addresses how the new science of the human brain impact how we assign and assume moral responsibility. The program was co-sponsored by the New Hampshire Humanities Council. In interrelated sequence featuring scientists, jurists, historians, clergy, philosophers, scientific research, silent films, courtroom footage, computer animation, and brain imaging techniques. Mind Talk challenges us to consider our free will, the use of mind altering drugs, and whether we are more than computers made of meat.

The video includes interviews with Dan Dennet, Roger Penrose, Pat and Paul Churchland, John Searle, Christoff Koch, Michael Gazzaniga, Jaron Lanier, Antonio Damasio, and Ken Burns among others. The video, which aired on PBS, is a useful educational tool for exploring the foundations of ethical thinking in light of modern neuroscience.

57 minutes

This video can be purchased through Films for the Humanities & Sciences (800 -257-5126)

The Burden of Knowledge: Moral Dilemmas in Prenatal Testing
Wendy Conquest, Bob Drake and Deni Elliott, producers

This proactive documentary explores the ethical issues and difficult decisions arising from advances in biotechnology that identify genetic defects in unborn children in the first month of pregnancy. Featuring interviews with doctors, geneticists, midwives, counselors, people with disabilities and seven couples who were offered prenatal testing. The Burden of Knowledge raises many important questions about responsibility, selective abortion, and the changing role of science and medicine in an increasingly complex world.

54 minutes

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Deception

In a composite case dramatized by actual health care professionals, an attending physician and primary nurse disagree about whether or not to treat an elderly female patient's latent syphilis without telling her what she has. The hospital staff, with the Hospital Ethics Committee, wrestle with the underlying ethical and legal issues involved.

This video is valuable to libraries in hospitals, medical schools, and allied health schools.

Purchase this video from:

Fanlight Productions
4196 Washington St.
Suite 2
Boston, MA 02131
800-937-4113
617-469-4999
617-469-3379 (fax)
fanlight@fanlight.com
www.fanlight.com