The debate over health security: the political economy of health care
Oakland, CA: Needle Press, 1994. Pamphlet. 82p., wraps, very good condition, 5.25x8.5 inches. More
Cat.No: 157130
Oakland, CA: Needle Press, 1994. Pamphlet. 82p., wraps, very good condition, 5.25x8.5 inches. More
Cat.No: 157130
Ann Arbor: Ann Arbor Free People's Clinic, [1973?]. Pamphlet. 8, [i]p., wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, very good condition, illustrated with political cartoons. Exposé of St. Joseph Mercy Hospital (run by 17 nuns allegedly) for lack of charity care and abandoning the community. More
Cat.No: 212594
San Francisco: Art Commission, 1978. Paperback. xiii+69p., 8.5x11 inch softbound; preface, introduction, catalogue, illustrated with reproductions and photos in b&w and color, pictorial wraps are a little edgeowrn and handling-soiled, and a faint packing- or damp-ripple affects entire volume, a good-only copy. Find a frontis-photo salute to Mayor George R...... More
Cat.No: 105245
San Francisco: Art Commission, 1978. Paperback. xiii+69p., 8.5x11 inch softbound; preface, introduction, catalogue, illustrated with reproductions and photos in b&w and color, pictorial wraps. Foredge is evenly darkened as from smoke, but we see no other indication of scortch. A good to very good copy. Find a frontis-photo salute to..... More
Cat.No: 240571
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003. Hardcover. xix, 648p. plus unpaginated acknowledgments; hardbound, the first American edition, handsomely bound in off-white cloth and boards and enclosed in a marvelously designed dust jacket showing subject Clare peeking out from a margin. Very faintest edgewear, a next to new copy: perfectly..... More
Cat.No: 306116
Boston: South End Press, 1980. Paperback. 291p., wraps, "AFSCME 1650" written on title page, one page creased else good condition. Brill a leftist & civil rights activist worked in Hospitals as an orderly and a ward clerk, these stories are based on his experiences. More
Cat.No: 309925
Ithaca: ILR Press, 1997. Paperback. xi, 177p., wraps, very good condition. "[Budrys] documents the emergence and development of the Union of American Physicians and Dentists (UAPD), founded in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1972, and suggests it may be a harbinger of renewed organizing efforts throughout the country" More
Cat.No: 38089
Sacramento, CA: The Well-Being Project, 1989. Paperback. 134p., 8.5x11 inch wrappers; wrappers slightly soiled from handling, top right corner slightly curled, slightly sheflworn edges, else in very good condition. Mental health patients give testimonials of their encounters with mental health institutions, societal discrimination and stigma, their communities and families, and..... More
Cat.No: 285614
San Francisco: Browser Books Publishing, 2006. Paperback. 64p., illustrated with five fullpage full-color reproductions (including cover), first printing of this paper original, softbound in 8x5 inch glossy wraps. Nice production in nice condition: sound, clean and unmarked. A Browser Books original. More
Cat.No: 311560
Wallingford, Pennsylvania: Pendle Hill, 1945. Pamphlet. 34p., stapled skyblue wraps, 5x7.5 inches, pages faintly toned, hint of dust-soil to covers plus an inked ownership to upper left, sound copy else clean and unmarked. Pendle Hill Pamphlet 24. Argues against mistreatment of patients at mental institutions. More
Cat.No: 241432
New York: Autonomedia, 2017. Paperback. 169p., 6x9 inch pictorial wraps; as New. "Rasken Hasp is dying of AIDS, given only a few months to live. Then someone tries to kill him." More
Cat.No: 314450
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989. Paperback. xvii, 298p., wraps, very good condition. The working class in American history. More
Cat.No: 35177
Palo Alto: Live Oak Printery, U.S. Vets Hospital, no date. Paperback. 20p., 3.5x6.25 inches; announcement inlaid, "Best wishes of Carlton Mead" penned on inside cover, slight uneven toning on front cover, else very good in original wraps. A tiny publication of poems, pseudonymous, signed by the publisher Carlton Mead. More
Cat.No: 94630
[Eugene, OR]: Self-published by the author, 2020. Pamphlet. [28]p., 5.5x8.5 inch zine-style staplebound wraps; illus., in very good condition. Discusses broken mental health system in Oregon. More
Cat.No: 312422
Chester Springs, PA: Dufour Editions, 1996. Paperback. 157p., 6x9 inches; small remainder mark on bottom-edge of text block, else in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 284200
Chester Springs, PA: Dufour Editions, 1995. Hardcover. 380p., cloth-covered boards, remainder mark on bottom edge of text block else very good condition in like dj. Mystery novel about a family of doctors. More
Cat.No: 283295
Dublin: Attic Press, 1987. Paperback. 144p., 5x7.75 inch paperback; minor sticker residue on back wrapper, else in very good condition. Greally was an asylum patient locked up for 20 years who underwent ECT or Electro Convulsive Therapy. She was released in the 1960s. More
Cat.No: 285416
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1951. Hardcover. 403p., hardbound first edition (so stated as is customary with Bobbs) in openweave cinnamon-brown cloth, untrimmed foredge; lacks the dust jacket and there is something a little funny with the rear hinge: it is mildly weak, the fascicle protrudes slightly, and there are..... More
Cat.No: 229144
San Francisco: the Institute, 1979. Pamphlet. 42p., 8.5x11 inches, introduction, context, methodology, documentation, conclusion and recommendations, bibliography, very good booklet in stapled green wraps with minor wear and fading. The groups involved were led by Marlene Dixon, best known as the founder of the Democratic Workers Party. The DWP had..... More
Cat.No: 55379
Brooklyn / Cambridge MA: The Print Center, for West End Press, 1981. Paperback. Unpaginated, about twenty pages, fullpage line drawings (some with spot color) each facing a paragraph of text. Softbound in 11x7.5 inch glossy white wraps decorated in red and green with black titling. One of 600 copies. A...... More
Cat.No: 219117
Moscow: Trade-Union Publishing House Profizdat, 1961. Pamphlet. 24p., staplebound pamphlet, 5x8 inches; Library rubberstamp on front wrapper (Library of New World Review), rusted staples, else in very good condition. Includes black and white photographic illustrations of hospitals and daily life of healthcare workers in the Soviet Union. More
Cat.No: 271109
New York: Exposition Press, 1963. Hardcover. 73p., orange cloth boards in dj, slightly shelfworn dj, jacket is rubbed, rubberstamp o fore-edge, else very good condition. Review copy slip inlaid. EP 41116. Fictionalized autobiography in which the narrator's wife, given shock "treatments" was electrocuted; Kirk supplies no technical details, this is..... More
Cat.No: 124651
Durham, NC: Cultural Services Program, Duke University Medical Center, [1990-?]. 28p., 5.5x8.5 inches, Koons' name and address in pen on title page, very good chapbook in stapled gray printed wraps. Collection of works by poets in residence at the Duke University Medical Center, part of a project to determine the..... More
Cat.No: 123508
Boston: New England Free Press, [1971]. Pamphlet. 15p., wraps, 8.5x11 inches, old price label, otherwise very good. "This article originally printed as the second of two parts in The New York Review of Books, vol. xvi, no. 10, Jun 3, 1971." More
Cat.No: 76440
Bloomington: Authorhouse, 2004. 327p., very good first trade paperback edition in pictorial wraps. Generic inscription signed by the Hoosier Vietnam Vet now living in California. Autobiographical novel of losing a knee to an eight-inch shell that landed just prior to Tet; Leich had a top secret clearance, not exactly a...... More
Cat.No: 149766