Books in the Bibliographies and Indexes in Medical Studies series

This annotated work represents the first bibliography since the AIDS epidemic began to unite scientific literature about prostitutes.

Treatment of cocaine abuse has traditionally been non-pharmacological, although beginning with the 1980s, various drugs have been used to decrease cocaine craving. This bibliography contains more than 600 references, spanning a century of research and writing.

Viruses are one of the three main causes of infectious diseases, the most common source of acute disease, and a major contributor to chronic disease. More than 400 different diseases are known to affect humans, causing problems ranging from mild respiratory diseases to AIDS.

Although American medicine has had truly impressive clinical achievements, America's health care system fails to provide equal access to reasonable care or to use its resources effectively at a high human cost.

The sheer quantity of volumes pertaining to medicine and health published in Great Britain from 1660 to 1800 attests to George Macaulay Trevelyan's claim that the medical profession was moving out of the dark ages into the light of science.

Some degree of depression is commonly experienced by such a broad spectrum of the population, that depression can be viewed as the common cold of psychological disorders.

Each project has been edited and presented in such a way that the author's purpose for conducting the research is made explicit, as are the main findings and conclusion. Divided into two parts, the volume first zeroes in on the sociodemographic projects.

The Vital and Health Statistics Series, or what documents and medical librarians call The Rainbow Series, includes four series published by the U.S. National Health Survey between 1958 and 1963, and eighteen series published by the National Center for Health Statistics since 1963.

In number, breadth, and completeness, the citations contained here go beyond current data bases. Entries are arranged alphabetically by author and in the case of multiple citations by author, the citations are listed chronologically for that author.

This work investigates how ethnic minority groups in the United States suffer and die from disease at higher rates than the general population. It also offers bibliographic data. Such groups include African-Americans, Alaska Natives, Native Americans, Hispanics and Pacific Asian Americans.

Part One is a chronological listing of information which illustrates how information about AIDS has evolved annually and in which form this information appears.