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Say brother. Health update / directed by Brian Clarke.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Black studies in video.
- Black studies in video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical care--Developing countries.
- Medical care.
- Developing countries.
- Public health--Developing countries.
- Public health.
- Genre:
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (56 min.)
- Place of Publication:
- Boston, MA : WGBH Boston Video, 1979.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- digital
- data file
- Summary:
- This program focuses on three major diseases that affect the Third World community: lupus, high blood pressure, and sickle cell anemia. Host Barbara Barrow-Murray, in a live program, speaks with guests Henrietta Aladjem (author of The Sun is My Enemy, a book detailing her life as a lupus patient), Dr. Carlos Vera (a hematologist at the Boston City Hospital and director of a clinical study on sickle cell at the Boston Sickle Cell Center), Dr. Patricia Frazier (immunologist at the Robert Brigham Hospital and a lupus specialist), Beverly Gibson (of the sickle cell unit at Children's Hospital), and Dr. Roger Jean-Charles (an internist at Boston University Medical Center, consultant for the American Heart Association and past president of the New England High Blood Pressure Council) about the symptoms of these diseases, where to go for testing, and treatment information. Program includes viewer calls.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed May 14, 2015).
- OCLC:
- 911713340
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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