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Medicine, Rural

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• Medicine

• Rural health

• Medicine, Rural -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
• Rural health services

• Rural medicine

• Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook (updated revised edition, 2025), by David Werner, Carol Thuman, and Jane Maxwell (PDF with commentary at hesperian.org)

• A Textbook of Australian Rural Health (Canberra : Australian Rural Health Education Network, 2008), ed. by Siaw-Teng Liaw and Sue Kilpatrick (PDF at farmerhealth.org.au)

• Defining "Rural" Areas: Impact on Health Care Policy and Research (1989), by Maria Elizabeth Hewitt (PDF files at Princeton)
• Health Care in Rural America (1990), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Handbook for Rural Health Care Ethics: A Practical Guide for Professionals (Lebanon, NH: Dartmouth College Press, 2009), ed. by William A. Nelson (PDF with commentary at Dartmouth)

• Health Care in Rural America (1990), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton
• Defining "Rural" Areas: Impact on Health Care Policy and Research (1989), by Maria Elizabeth Hewitt (PDF files at Princeton)

• Health Care in Rural America (1990), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Rural Substance Abuse: State of Knowledge and Issues, ed. by Elizabeth B. Robertson, Zili Sloboda, Gayle M. Boyd, Lula Beatty, and Nicholas J. Kozel (PDF files at NIH)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook (updated revised edition, 2025), by David Werner, Carol Thuman, and Jane Maxwell (PDF with commentary at hesperian.org)
• Certain Factors Involved in the Struggle Against Malnutrition and Disease : With Special Reference to the Southwest of the United States and Latin America (Inter-Americana short paper #7; Albuquerque: Univ. of New Mexico Press, 1943), by Michel Pijoan (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Textbook of Australian Rural Health (Canberra : Australian Rural Health Education Network, 2008), ed. by Siaw-Teng Liaw and Sue Kilpatrick (PDF at farmerhealth.org.au)

• A Textbook of Australian Rural Health (Canberra : Australian Rural Health Education Network, 2008), ed. by Siaw-Teng Liaw and Sue Kilpatrick (PDF at farmerhealth.org.au)

• Rural Substance Abuse: State of Knowledge and Issues, ed. by Elizabeth B. Robertson, Zili Sloboda, Gayle M. Boyd, Lula Beatty, and Nicholas J. Kozel (PDF files at NIH)

• An Alaskan Challenge: Native Village Sanitation (1994), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• The Use of Organic Residues in Rural Communities (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, c1983), ed. by Cyril A. Shacklady (HTML at UNU Press)

• Fire Suppression Substitutes and Alternatives to Halon for U.S. Navy Applications (1997), by National Research Council Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Cover Crops in Hillside Agriculture: Farmer Innovation with Mucuna, by Daniel Buckles, Bernard Triomphe, and Gustavo Sain (PDF and HTML at idrc.ca)

• Bats and Bat Exclusion (2004), by Illinois Department of Public Health (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guano: A Treatise of Practical Information for Farmers, Containing Plain Directions How to Apply Peruvian Guano to the Various Crops and Soils of America, With a Brief Synopsis of Its History, Locality, Quantity, Method of Procuring, Prospect of Continued Supply, and Price; Analysis of its Composition, and Value as a Fertilizer, Over All Other Manures (New York: The author, 1853), by Solon Robinson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at Cornell
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure (third edition, c2005), by Joseph C. Jenkins (PDF files with commentary at jenkinspublishing.com)
• The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure (second edition, c1999), by Joseph C. Jenkins (illustrated HTML at weblife.org)
• The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure (first edition, c1994), by Joseph C. Jenkins
  • illustrated HTML at webpal.org
  • PDF at webpal.org

• Septage Management (Cincinnati: Municipal Environmental Research Laboratory, Office of Research and Development, Environmental Protection Agency, 1980), by Joseph W. Rezek and Ivan A. Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)

• Natural Resources and Rural Development in Arid Lands: Case Studies from Sudan (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, c1985), ed. by H. R. J. Davies (illustrated HTML at UNU Press)

• Water for Food, Water for Life: A Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture (with information on other publications; London and Sterling, VA: Earthscan, c2007), ed. by D. Molden (PDF files with commentary at cgiar.org)

• Modern and Traditional Irrigation Technologies in the Eastern Mediterranean, ed. by Ozay Mehmet and Hasan Ali Bicak (PDF and HTML with commentary at idrc.ca)

• The Impact of Water Supply Reductions on San Joaquin Valley Agriculture During the 1986-1992 Drought, by Larry L. Dale and Lloyd S. Dixon (PDF files at rand.org)

• The Impact of Water Supply Reductions on San Joaquin Valley Agriculture During the 1986-1992 Drought, by Larry L. Dale and Lloyd S. Dixon (PDF files at rand.org)

• Canals and Communities: Small-Scale Irrigation Systems (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, c1996), ed. by Jonathan B. Mabry (multiple formats with commentary at Arizona)

• Water for Food, Water for Life: A Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture (with information on other publications; London and Sterling, VA: Earthscan, c2007), ed. by D. Molden (PDF files with commentary at cgiar.org)

• Water Scarcity: Impacts on Western Agriculture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984), ed. by Ernest A. Engelbert and Ann Foley Scheuring (HTML at UC Press)

• The Genesis and Control of Disease: An Attempt to Demonstrate the Pathological Possibilities of Emotional and Physical Maladjustment and Resultant Metabolic and Nutritional Disturbance (Los Angeles: Press of Phillips Printing Co., 1931), by George S. Weger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Aequanimitas; With Other Addresses to Medical Students, Nurses and Practitioners of Medicine (second edition, with 3 additional addresses; London: H. K. Lewis, 1914), by William Osler (multiple formats at archive.org)
• An Alabama Student, and Other Biographical Essays, by William Osler (HTML at jcmi.edu)
• Medical Essays, 1842-1882, by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Gutenberg text)
• Medical Inquiries and Observations (second American edition, revised and expanded, 4 volumes; Philadelphia: J. Conrad and Co. et al., 1805), by Benjamin Rush
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
• Nature in Disease, Illustrated in Various Discourses and Essays; To Which Are Added Miscellaneous Writings, Chiefly on Medical Subjects (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854), by Jacob Bigelow
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Warfare in the Human Body: Essays on Method, Malignity, Repair and Allied Subjects (New York: E. P. Dutton Co., c1921), by Morley Roberts (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Modern Inquiries: Classical, Professional, and Miscellaneous (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1867), by Jacob Bigelow (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Elephant Man, and Other Reminiscences (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1923), by Frederick Treves (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Hell in an Uproar: A Satyr, Occasioned By a Scuffle Which Lately Happened Between the Lawyers and Physicians for Superiority (London: Printed for T. Watkins, 1750), by Richard Burridge (page images at NIH)
• Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine, by George M. Gould and Walter L. Pyle (Gutenberg text)
• Curiosities of Medical Experience (second edition; London: R. Bentley, 1839), by J. G. Millingen (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Ye Medical Student's Primer (1901), by Martha Tracy (page images at Drexel)

• Aphorisms, by Hippocrates, trans. by Francis Adams (HTML at Internet Classics)

• Attributing Excellence in Medicine: The History of the Nobel Prize (Leiden and Boston: Brill, c2019), ed. by Nils Hansson, Thorsten Halling, and Heiner Fangerau (page images at JSTOR)

• Medical Behavioral Science: A Selected Bibliography of Cultural Anthropology, Social Psychology, and Sociology in Medicine (Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 1963), by Marion Pearsall (page images at HathiTrust)

• Makers of Modern Medicine (New York: Fordham University Press, 1907), by James J. Walsh (page images at HathiTrust)

• Waste-Basket Surgery (Philadelphia et al.: Judson Press, 1930), by Gordon Stifler Seagrave (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Medical Profession in Upper Canada, 1783-1850: An Historical Narrative With Original Documents Relating to the Profession, Including Some Brief Biographies (Toronto: W. Briggs, 1894), by William Canniff (multiple formats at archive.org)

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