Search Results: Medical, medicine, doctors from Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB

Rutland, VT: The Tuttle Company, printers, 1926. paperback. 103p., wraps, 6x9 inches, wraps lightly worn, else very good condition.

San Francisco: Harder and Company Community Research, 2004. Spiral_bound. iv, 270p., 8.5x11 inches, guide, references, index, profusely illustrated with color tables, figures, maps, tabbed chapters, very good report in spiral-bound pictorial wraps. Extensive and exhaustive report on the Plan.

[Chicago]: [National Physicians' Committee], 1944. Poster. 17x22 inch poster, neatly fold-creased, otherwise very good. Part of a fear-mongering campaign against the Wagner-Murray-Dingell bill for government support of medical care; warns that it wold change doctors to mere public employees who would work only eight hours a day, working to please their political masters rather than patients. Argues that this would be a decisive step towards federal control of all professions and industry in the US.

Pamphlet. Respectively 23, 7, 13p., very good copies in differing formats, all dating from the 1960s; sold as a small lot.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1989. Paperback. vii, 113p., illustrated with b&w and color figures and photos, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Pocket Picture Guides.

Park Ridge, NJ: Noyes Publications, 1987. Hardcover. xliii, 1103p., tables, figures, forewords, preface, references, notes, concluisons, very good ex library copy in green cloth with black panels and gilt titles.

Tokyo: Futtowaaku Shuppan フットワーク出版, 1993. Paperback. 180, 18p., illustrated with cartoon figures, text in Japanese, very good reprint paperback in green pictorial wraps. The author was an internist for the Kinki area Health Center. The preface urges readers to not make the mistake of considering themselves immune while at the same time dispelling irrational fears about the dangers of AIDS. Contents include a chapter urging readers to get tested, explaining the procedure in detail and what the results mean; a chapter explaining AIDS prevention strategies (e.g. how "going on sex tours is suicidal," how anal sex is "strictly off limits," and how people should use snug Japanese-made condoms only); and a chapter on AIDS treatment. A substantial final section discusses the AIDS crisis around the world, noting how the disease has spread and what particular problems have been encountered in Africa, South America, Australia, the US, Asia, and Europe - and what these examples can tell Japan.

New York: IAVI, 2000. Three booklets, 55p., 29p. & 32p., 8.5x11 inches, illustrated with tables, figures and graphs, appendices in third booklet, very good in stapled white printed wraps. An IAVI Blueprint.

Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1988. Magazine. 65p., 8.5x11 inches, preface, notes, glossary, sample CME examination, photos, tables and figures, very good booklet in stapled glossy white wraps.

New York: Pinnacle Books, 1983. 273p., introduction, glossary, index, very good later printing mass-market paperback original in printed wraps.

New York: Routledge, 1996. Paperback. ix, 169p., review slip laid in, photos, figures, tables, introduction, notes, bibliography, index, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps.

New York: Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, 2002. Hardcover. xx, 724p., original illustrated boards very slightly handled, else clean and in very good condition.

San Francisco: Cleis Press, 1988. Paperback. 251p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps.

New York: AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition, 2005. Paperback. vii, 370p., wraps, very good condition.

Chicago: National Physicians' Committee for the Extension of Medical Service, 1943. Pamphlet. 26p., wraps, very good condition, 4x7.25 inches. Opposed to the government being involved in medicine.

London: Croom Helm, 1988. Hardcover. 195p., very good condition in a slightly shelf worn dj.

New York: Committee for the Defense of Soviet Political Prisoners, 1976. Pamphlet. 28p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, wraps faded along stapled edge else very good condition.

Washington DC: the Council, 1969. 50p., 8.5x11 inch sheets stapled at upper left corner, very good. Also included is a two-page statement excoriating Nixon for starving the poor. Radical report by doctors, religious leaders and activists on hunger in America. "2,000 years ago, Emperor Nero kept the plebs content with a surfeit of bread and circuses. Two weeks ago, President Richard Nixon tried to appease the 25 to 30 million poor, hence hungry or malnourished Americans, with the same diet. There was one difference - he omitted the bread." Another edition of this report was issued as a stand-alone publication rather than as an issue of the Action Report; it was titled "Bread now!

Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1972. Paperback. 37p. pamphlet, old price penned on cover, interior clean. Includes discussion of acupuncture anesthesia used during brain surgery.

Cranbury, NJ: Wallace Laboratories, 1964. Pamphlet. [20]p., stapled wraps, 5.5x5.5 inches, wraps lightly edgeworn else very good condition. Cartoons about overeating, produced by a pharmaceutical / personal care company for doctors.