Eat Your Troubles Away Kordel 1970 Health and virility can be yours with a new diet plan. This is a pretty standard diet book, but Kordel gives us something really for the men: virility! Guys, it is just a matter of
Category: Health and Safety
Titles related to mental and physical health, personal and home safety.
Bad Medicine
A Survey of Pathology King 1976 Submitter: I work at an academic medical school library. I am new and I have been weeding on and off since I arrived because previous staff thought that everything should be saved. We do retain
Head Injury: Who Cares?
Children’s Head Injury: Who Cares? Johnson, Uttley & Wyke (Eds.) 1989 Submitter: This book was weeded from our academic library collection a few years ago. I’ve kept it in my office for the last several years because it cracks me
Afraid to Ask
Afraid to Ask: A Book For Families to Share About Cancer Fine 1986 Submitter: My local library has a large network of branches. Also included are the libraries at all the public schools. This 1986 book on cancer came to
Get Cancer and a Pony!
No Longer Afraid Sanford 1992 Our pal Doris is back with another in depth look at childhood cancer as part of the Children of Courage series. (Please check the category of “Doris Hall of Infamy” for more examples.) Our child
Isn’t Depression Cute?
How to Beat the Blahs Littauer 1979 As a long sufferer of the “blahs”, this book is beyond awful. For the time, this was probably how most folks thought about depression. Basically, with a little lipstick and a new outfit,
Curing Breast Cancer
Early Detection Breast Cancer is Curable Strax 1974 A breast cancer book from 1974? You have got to be kidding me! Maybe the holding library liked the groovy cover. I don’t need to say that this book in a health
A creepy, broken doll says it all
Everything You Need to Know About: Family Violence. Stark 1989 Submitter: I swear to the Library Gods that I have gone through this collection with a fine toothed comb at least three times in the last three years, but still, I