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Title:

Hold your breath [videorecording] / director, Maren Grainger-Monsen ; producers, Maren Grainger-Monsen & Julia Haslett ; writer, Olivia Crawford.

Format:

[videorecording] /

Publisher:

Maren Grainger-Monsen,

Copyright Date:

2005

Description:

1 videodisc (59 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Transcultural medical care.
Medical care--United States--Cross-cultural studies.
Communication in medicine.
Physician and patient.
Minorities--Medical care--United States.
Afghan Americans--Medical care.
Medicine--Islam.--Islam.
Patients--Religious life.
Communication Barriers.
Islam.
Physician-Patient Relations.
Professional-Family Relations.
Religion and Medicine.
Stomach Neoplasms--drug therapy.
Treatment Refusal.
Documentaries and Factual Films.
Feature films--United States.
Nonfiction films.
Documentary films.
Feature films.

Other Authors:

Grainger-Monsen, Maren. pro. pro.
Haslett, Julia. pro.
Crawford, Olivia. aus.
Fanlight Productions.

Notes:

Originally produced in 2005.

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.

ISBN:

9781572958500
1572958502

OCLC:

(OCoLC)77563618

Locations:

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)