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Near death / Exit Films ; a Zipporah Films release ; director, producer, Frederick Wiseman.
LIBRA DVD 013 012 discs 1-3
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Intensive care units--Massachusetts--Boston.
- Intensive care units.
- Terminal care facilities--Massachusetts--Boston.
- Terminal care facilities.
- Hospitals--Massachusetts--Boston.
- Hospitals.
- Beth Israel Hospital (Boston, Mass.).
- Terminally ill.
- Terminal care--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Terminal care.
- Massachusetts--Boston.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 3 videodiscs (358 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- monochrome
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Zipporah Films [distributor], [between 2000 and 2009]
- System Details:
- DVD; all-region.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Set in an adult intensive care unit of the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, the documentary follows medical and nursing staff caring for mostly terminally ill patients and interacting with their families during a several day period.
- Credits:
- Photography, John Davey ; editor, Frederick Wiseman.
- Notes:
- Originally produced in 1989.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781885918734
- 1885918739
- OCLC:
- 232997652
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