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Hold your breath / director, Maren Grainger-Monsen ; producers, Maren Grainger-Monsen & Julia Haslett ; writer, Olivia Crawford.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Persian
- Pushto
- Subjects (All):
- Transcultural medical care.
- Medical care--United States--Cross-cultural studies.
- Medical care.
- Communication in medicine.
- Physician and patient.
- Minorities--Medical care--United States.
- Minorities.
- Minorities--Medical care.
- Afghan Americans.
- United States.
- Afghan Americans--Medical care.
- Medicine--Religious aspects--Islam.
- Medicine.
- Patients--Religious life.
- Patients.
- Genre:
- Nonfiction films.
- Documentary films.
- Feature films.
- Cross-cultural studies.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (58 min.) : digital, sound, color
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Boston, Mass.] : [Distributed by] Fanlight Collection, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English, Farsi, and Pashto with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- Mohammad Kochi is an elderly man from Afghanistan, now living in California, who's been diagnosed with a life-threatening cancer. This documentary looks at the clash between ancient Islamic traditions and contemporary medical technology through the eyes of both the family and the doctors.
- Participant:
- Interpreters, Mariam Farid, Rahmattullah Nazari.
- Credits:
- Editor, Ken Schneider ; camera, Andy Black ... [et al.] ; director of photography, Steve Condiotti.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced in 2005.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed February 14, 2014).
- Publisher Number:
- fn-hold Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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