| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (349 min.) : flv file, sound, black and white |
| Summary |
Near death is a film about the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital. The film is concerned with how people face death. More specifically the film presents the complex interrelationships among patients, families, doctors, nurses, hospital staff and religious advisors as they confront the personal, ethical, medical, psychological, religious and legal issues involved in making decisions about whether or not to give life-sustaining treatment to dying patients. "This documentary is, quite simply, the most powerful dose of medical reality ever administered by the tube."--Harry F. Waters, Newsweek. "[Near death carries] its audience from an initially raw emotional response to a calmer consideration of the difficult issues raised here, and finally on to some sort of resolution."--Janet Maslin, The New York Times |
| Analysis |
Health & Wellness |
| Notes |
Title from title frames |
| Credits |
Photography, John Davey ; editor, Frederick Wiseman |
| Event |
Originally produced by Frederick Wiseman (Zipporah) in 1989 |
| Notes |
In English with optional closed-captions |
| Subject |
Beth Israel Hospital (Boston, Mass.)
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| SUBJECT |
Beth Israel Hospital (Boston, Mass.) fast |
| Subject |
Intensive care units -- Massachusetts -- Boston
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Terminal care facilities -- Massachusetts -- Boston
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Hospitals -- Massachusetts -- Boston
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Terminally ill.
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Terminal care -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Nursing.
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Religion.
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Terminally Ill
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Religion
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terminally ill.
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religion (discipline)
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Terminally ill
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Terminal care -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Terminal care facilities
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Intensive care units
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Hospitals
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Nursing
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Religion
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Massachusetts -- Boston
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documentary film.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired
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Nonfiction films
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Documentary films
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Documentary films.
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Nonfiction films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Documentaires.
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Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives.
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Films autres que de fiction.
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Streaming video
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| Author |
Wiseman, Frederick, film director, film producer.
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Davey, John (Cinematographer), cinematographer.
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Zipporah Films, distributor.
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