Science

Presents current research, findings, and questions related to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, presents. AIDS first appeared in the United States in 1979 and is defined by secondary complications such as the presence of pneumocystis pneumonia and other opportunistic infections, or Kaposi's sarcoma resulting from an underlying immune deficiency caused by the virus HTLV3. Dr.

This film stresses the importance of good health for soldiers fighting in different climates during World War II. It profiles jungle diseases, especially yellow fever, and describes laboratory research conducted jointly by U.S. and Colombian researchers to develop a vaccine. The importance of spraying for mosquitoes and vaccinating a population is stressed and demonstrated in Colombia.

Diagnosis of gonorrhea should be done by clinical and laboratory investigation. The physician and patients are shown in the physician's office and examining room. The patients remove their clothing, and the physician takes samples from the end of the penis and makes thin smear slides from them. The techniques for stripping gonococci from male and female patients with chronic gonorrhea are shown in drawings and live footage. The physician is shown getting and preparing a urine sample for laboratory testing for the presence of gonococci, including using a hand-cranked centrifuge.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. Francis Collins and other leaders from the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Health and Human Services join Washington National Cathedral as we vaccinate DC-area clergy.

This film produced by the Firestone Plantations Company recounts efforts by the government of Liberia, the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, and the Liberian Institute of the American Foundation for Tropical Medicine to improve the health and nutritional status of Liberian citizens, particularly those working on rubber plantations. The program notes that a healthy work force is necessary both for the betterment of Liberia and for the economic success of companies operating rubber, coffee, and other plantations in the country.

This film, produced by Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, explains the corporation's approach to company-provided medical services for employees in its hundreds of locations around the world. Because climate, culture, and type and prevalence of disease vary so widely, tailored approaches are called for. The Standard Oil program is described as a four-point effort: preventive, constructive, educative, and curative medicine.

Shows the pressures under which members of a large city police department work daily, and stresses the importance of handling any situation that may occur during a policeman's regular patrol routine. This police training film was produced by The Louisiana Association for Mental Health and filmed in Cleveland, Ohio with assistance from the city’s police department. It tells the story of four policemen and the pressures they face in their work on a daily basis.

Gene Kelly directs and stars in this wartime naval "training" film. Kelly plays the role of Seaman Bob Lucas, a troubled and angry "fireman" whose ship was sunk in battle. Many sailors died at sea, but Lucas lived through it and suffers from what now might be termed "post-traumatic stress disorder." After lashing out at everyone around him, Lucas comes to understand his emotions, and moves from illness to wellness, with the help of a wise psychiatrist. Kelly considered his performance in Combat Fatigue Irritability one of his very best. But no filmography lists it.

The purpose of this presentation is to discuss death and dying. This objective is achieved with presentations of interviews with clinical patients and hospital staff personnel. Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross stresses the need for hospital personnel to reach out to help the dying patient. In this presentation Dr. Kubler-Ross describes the five stages through which patients with a terminal illness go in order to come to a peaceful acceptance of their own imminent death. These stages are noted to be denial, anger, depression, bargaining, and finally acceptance.

This film, part of a series produced by the U.S. National Medical Audiovisual Center, presents a discussion about the role of the psychiatrist in criminal law, courtroom, and prison. Alexander Brooks of the Rutgers University Law School moderates. Panelists Dr. Thomas Szasz and Dr. Bernard Diamond take opposing views. Szasz argues that psychiatry is used to manipulate both the law and the defendant, and is not applied in any scientific way in the courtroom, nor can it be.