Medical, medicine, doctors
Mental health care - who's calling the shots?; non-technical bulletin on mental illness and mental health care
Chapel Hill, NC: DHARMA [Diversity, Humanity, And Resourcefulness in Mental Anguish], 2002. Pamphlet. 80p. [1], 5.5x8 inch photocopied zine format; graphics, illus., non-priority variant copy, slight coffee stain on front wrap, else in very good condition. One holding found in OCLC as of 5/2022. Anti-psychiatry zine. More
Cat.No: 285470
Mental health care - who's calling the shots?; non-technical bulletin on mental illness and mental health care
Chapel Hill, NC: DHARMA [Diversity, Humanity, And Resourcefulness in Mental Anguish], 2002. Pamphlet. 80p. [1], 5.5x8 inch photocopied zine format; graphics, illus., non-priority variant copy, slight coffee stain on front wrap, else in very good condition. One holding found in OCLC as of 5/2022. Anti-psychiatry zine. More
Cat.No: 285472
Mental illness can be cured
Madison, WI: American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, 1947. Pamphlet. 15p., 4.5x6 inch wraps; slight uneven toning on rear wrapper, else in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 285711
Methadone: an American way of dealing
Dayton, OH: Dayton Methadone Information Center, [1974]. [8p.], drawings throughout, 8.5x6 inches; brochure sent through the mail with address label and remains of small sealing sticker. Publicity material for a documentary by Julia Reichart and Jim Klein, filmed partly at a Midwestern methadone clinic and partly at a Washington, DC..... More
Cat.No: 129624
Mujeres y salud: encuentro nacional organizado por: Centro Flora Tristán, Movimiento Manuela Ramos, Centro de Estudios Sociales y Publicaciones (CESIP). Chosica, Lima - febrero del 8 al 12 de 1987
Lima: Centro de la Mujer Peruana Flora Tristán, 1987. Paperback. 144p., wraps, ownership signature on title page, pages evenly toned else good condition. Text in Spanish. More
Cat.No: 174231
Mujeres y salud: II encuentro nacional. Chosica, 24-28 de Octibre, 1989. Lima, Peru
Lima: Centro de la Mujer Peruana Flora Tristán, 1996. Paperback. 144p., wraps, ownership signature on title page, pages evenly toned else good condition. Text in Spanish. More
Cat.No: 174232
Narrative of privations and sufferings of United States officers and soldiers; while prisoners of war in the hands of the rebel authorities; being the report of a commission of inquiry, appointed by the United States sanitary commission, with an appendix, containing the testimony
Philadelphia: Printed for the U. S. Sanitary Commission by King & Baird, Prs, 1864. 283p., sewn textblock in plain printed 8.75 x 5.5 inch wraps. Spine panel of wraps partially covered in clear tape, chipped at head & tail (exposing signatures); front wrap missing small bits along margins and split..... More
Cat.No: 73003
A new era for the injured worker. The industrial injuries act. By the staff of the late W.H. Thompson
[London]: Twentieth Century Press, [1948?]. Pamphlet. 24p., stapled wraps, 6x9 inches, wraps slightly worn, front wrap lightly foxed along top edge, staples rusted. More
Cat.No: 126619
Niño sano, mama contenta / Healthy baby, happy mother
Hampton, Iowa and San Francisco: US Farm News; Sun-Reporter, 1985. 40p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches. People's Health Days. Reproduces a Nicaraguan public health booklet in cartoon form about preventing diarrhea; English translation is on facing pages. Introduction states that the booklet "stands in vivid contrast to the recent CIA manual..... More
Cat.No: 175801
Normas de manejo pediatrico, Hospital General San Juan de Dios, Departamento de Pediatria
[Guatemala City]: the Hospital, n.d. 438p., bound with bolts in plastic covers; ownership inscription, edge soil, notes penned at end. Text in Spanish. Pediatric manual for staff at the Guatemalan hospital. More
Cat.No: 243327
North West Call; the renewed voice of democratic socialism in the Pacific Northwest
Seattle: North West Call, n.d. Staplebound. [8p.], 5.5x8.5 inch photocopied wraps; in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 295132
O mea ua iloaina: I oti faafuase'i o tamaiti laiti
n.p. Hawaii SIDS Information and Counseling Program, [198-?]. Pamphlet. Four-page brochure, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good. Samoan-language overview of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, adapted from Hawaiian Department of Health materials by Dr. Lulumafuie Fiatoa. More
Cat.No: 304132
O mea ua iloaina: I oti faafuase'i o tamaiti laiti [together with Korean version]
n.p. Hawaii SIDS Information and Counseling Program, [198-?]. Pamphlet. Two four-page brochures, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good. Samoan-language overview of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, adapted from Hawaiian Department of Health materials by Dr. Lulumafuie Fiatoa, together with a Korean version, translated by Young-Seok Choi. More
Cat.No: 290552
Old Town Hospital Ticket
Old Town, ME: Old Town Hospital Company, 1905. Ticket. Receipt for a payment in advance of $3.00 for "board, washing, nursing, medicine, medical and surgical treatment during any disability or sickness (except venereal disease or any disease contracted previous to the purchase of this ticket)" within six months after issuance..... More
Cat.No: 253449
Pelvic examinations [Tribe]
unknown: the newspaper, unknown. Single leaf folded to 16.5 x 11.5 inches, pp.9-12 [i.e., 4p.], a pull-out center section from Tribe (hippie tabloid of the 1970s). Line drawings show how to do pelvics, text is embellished with b&w snapshot photography and sketch art. Light crease as for tabloid distribution, signs..... More
Cat.No: 78409
Population Report; Series C, Number 3, June 1973
Washington DC: Department of Medical and Public Affairs, The George Washington University Medical Center, 1973. Newsletter. [16p.], 8.5x11 inches; medical photos., bibliography, punch holes along left side, staples slightly rusted, slightly handled, else in very good condition. Seems to be an excerpt of a larger report. Discusses female sterilization. More
Cat.No: 291676
Portraits of an Epicenter: NYC in Lockdown
New York City: Laguardia Community College, 2020. Paperback. 59p., 8x10 inches; color photographs on glossy pages, in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 276755
The President's Advisory Commission on Narcotic and Drug Abuse; final report: November 1963
Washington: GPO, 1963. iv, 123p., introduction, conclusion, appendixes, figures, very good in wraps. Kennedy Administration report mainly concerned with addictive opiates, heroin, opium etc. More
Cat.No: 135240
Prodotti speciali farmaceutici ... C. Giongo
Milano: C. Giongo, n.d. [c1913?]. Pamphlet. 43p., 4.25x6.75 inch wraps; photos., slight rust on staple, hint of toning on wraps, else in very good condition. Advertising catalogue for pharmacists. More
Cat.No: 298426
The profit in non-profit hospitals: a Health/PAC West Special Report
San Francisco: Health/PAC West, [1976?]. Pamphlet. 12p., 5.5x8.5 inches, line drawing illustrations, references, lightly shelfworn else very good pamphlet in stapled brown pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 182306
Project Projimo; a villager-run rehabilitation program for disabled children in western Mexico
Palo Alto: The Hesperian Foundation, no date. Paperback. 64p., 8.5x11 inches, illustrated with photos, drawings and charts, bit soiled in original stapled pictorial wraps. Previous owner's "Library of..." blind stamp to front cover. More
Cat.No: 107541
The prostitution racket
New York: American Social Hygiene Association, [194-]. Pamphlet. Six-panel brochure, very good. "1944" (year of receipt) penciled at bottom of rear panel. OCLC dates it to 1943 but we see no indication of this on the item itself. Argues against those who favor tolerance of prostitution, particularly around military bases;..... More
Cat.No: 285041
Report of the board of trustees of state institutions of New Hampshire for the period ending August 31, 1918, biennial report of the superintendent of the New Hampshire State Hospital for the period ending August 31, 1918, report of the officers of the New Hampsure State Prison for the biennial period ending August 31, 1918, ninth biennial report of the superintendent of the New Hampshire School for Feeble Minded Children at Laconia for the biennial period ending August 31, 1918,fifth biennail report of the superintendent of the New Hampshire State Sanatorium for the biennial period ending August 31, 1918, report of the superintendent of the industrial school at Manchester, NH for the biennial period ending August 31, 1918,
Concord, NH: Evans Printing Company, 1918. 28p., 30p., 21p., 9p., 25p., 14p., bound together in to a single hardback volume, ex libris, a sound, handleable copy. A series of New Hampshire state government reports for the year 1918. More
Cat.No: 117498