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• Before and After Radical Prostate Surgery: Information and Resource Guide (Edmonton: AU Press, c2008), by Virginia Vandall-Walker, contrib. by Katherine N. Moore and Diane Pyne (PDF with commentary at AU Press)
• Smart Health Choices: Making Sense of Health Advice (London: Hammersmith Press, 2008), by Les Irwig, Judy Irwig, Lyndal Trevena, and Melissa Sweet (illustrated HTML at NIH)

• Natural Liberty: Rediscovering Self-Induced Abortion Methods (Creative Commons licensed edition, c2008), by Sage-Femme Collective (PDF at riseup.net)

• Action Track: Treatment Tools for Counsellors Working With Youth (c2001), by Alberta Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission (PDF at University of Calgary)

• Action Track: Treatment Tools for Counsellors Working With Youth (c2001), by Alberta Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission (PDF at University of Calgary)
• An Individual Drug Counseling Approach to Treat Cocaine Addiction: The Collaborative Cocaine Treatment Study Model, by Delinda E. Mercer and George E. Woody (HTML and PDF at NIH)

• Genetic Susceptibility to Breast and Ovarian Cancer: Assessment, Counseling and Testing Guidelines (Bethesda, MD: American College of Medical Genetics; 1999) (illustrated HTML at NIH)

• Genetic Counseling and Cystic Fibrosis Carrier Screening: Results of a Survey (1992), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Effective Communications for Nutrition in Primary Health Care (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 1988), ed. by Jean E. Andersen and Aree Valyasevi (HTML at UNU)

• Resisting 12-Step Coercion: How to Fight Forced Participation in AA, NA, or 12-Step Treatment (Tucson, AZ: See Sharp Press, 2000), by Stanton Peele (HTML at Wayback Machine)

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

• Jack O'Health and Peg O'Joy: A Fairy-Tale (New York; Chicago; Boston: Charles Scribner's Sons, c1921), by Beatrice Slayton Herben, illust. by Frederick Richardson (page images at Drexel)

• Effective Communications for Nutrition in Primary Health Care (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 1988), ed. by Jean E. Andersen and Aree Valyasevi (HTML at UNU)

• Health Framework for California Public Schools: Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve (2003), by California Department of Education (PDF at cde.ca.gov)

• Health Framework for California Public Schools: Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve (2003), by California Department of Education (PDF at cde.ca.gov)

• Changing the Course of AIDS: Peer Education in South Africa and its Lessons for the Global Crisis (Ithaca, NY and London: ILR Press, c2009), by David Dickinson, contrib. by Charles Deutsch (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• External Review of the Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's HIV Prevention Program: Summary and Overview (1994), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• How Effective is AIDS Education? (1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton
• Schools & Health: Our Nation's Investment (1997), ed. by Diane DeMuth Allensworth, Elaine Lawson, Lois Nicholson, and James Wyche (page images and HTML at NAP)
• Physical Activity and Health: A Report of the Surgeon General (1996), by United States Department of Health and Human Services (PDF files at cdc.gov)
• Benefit Design in Health Care Reform: Clinical Preventive Services (1993), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Community-Based Interventions for Smokers: The COMMIT Field Experience, by National Cancer Institute (U.S.) (PDF files at cancer.gov)

• Public Information About Osteoporosis: What's Available, What's Needed? (OTA-BP-H-131; 1994), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Dental Outlook (Australian journal) (partial serial archives)

• Health Care Civil Rights: How Discrimination Law Fails Patients (Oakland: University of California Press, c2025), by Anna Kirkland (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• Responsible Research: A Systems Approach to Protecting Research Participants (2003), ed. by Daniel D. Federman, Kathi E. Hanna, and Laura Lyman Rodriguez (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Sterilization in Hitler Germany (New York: Commission Investigating Fascist Activities, ca. 1934), by Benjamin Goldstein (page images at HathiTrust)

• Human Sterilization: The History of the Sexual Sterilization Movement (New York: Macmillan, 1932), by Jacob Henry Landman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Behind the Door of Delusion: By "Inmate Ward 8" (New York: Macmillan, 1932), by Marle Woodson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sterilization for Human Betterment: A Summary of Results of 6,000 Operations in California, 1909-1929 (New York: Macmillan, 1929), by E. S. Gosney and Paul Popenoe (page images at HathiTrust)

• Eugenic Sterilization in the United States: A Comparative Summary of Statutes and Review of Court Decisions (supplement #162 to the Public Health Reports; Washington: GPO, 1940), by James E. Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eugenical Sterilization in the United States (Chicago: Psychopathic Laboratory of the Municipal Court of Chicago, 1922), by Harry Hamilton Laughlin, contrib. by Harry Olson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Mad World and its Inhabitants (New York: D. Appleton and Co.; London: S. Low, Marston, Searl and Rivington, 1877), by Julius Chambers (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Mind That Found Itself: An Autobiography (fourth edition; New York et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1917), by Clifford Whittingham Beers (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Exposing the Modern Secret Way of Persecuting Christians in Order to Hush the Voice of Truth: Insane Hospitals are Inquisition Houses; All Heaven is Interested in This Crime (Boston: Printed for the author, 1859), by Elizabeth T. Stone (multiple formats at archive.org)
• An Account of the Imprisonment and Sufferings of Robert Fuller, of Cambridge (Boston: Printed for the author, 1833), by Robert Fuller (multiple formats at Google)
• The Travels and Experience of Miss Phebe B. Davis of Barnard, Windsor County, Vt. (Syracuse: J. G. K. Truair and Co., 1860), by Phebe B. Davis (multiple formats at archive.org)

• "They Call Them Camisoles" (Los Angeles: Lymanhouse, c1940), by Wilma Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Experiences of an Asylum Patient (London: Allen and Unwin, c1922), by Rachel Grant-Smith, ed. by Montagu Lomax (page images at tmc.edu)

• Memorial to the Legislature of Massachusetts (1843), by Dorothea Lynde Dix (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Right Spirit (Buffalo: Courier Co., 1885), by Lizzie D. Cottier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ten Days in a Mad-House (with miscellaneous sketches "Trying to be a Servant," and "Nellie Bly as a White Slave"; New York: N. L. Munro, n.d.), by Nellie Bly
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and audio reading

• Faith Born of Seduction: Sexual Trauma, Body Image, and Religion (New York and London: New York University Press, 1995), by Jennifer L. Manlowe (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions; Together With Death's Duel (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1959), by John Donne, contrib. by Izaak Walton (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, by John Donne (multiple formats with commentary at CCEL)

• Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses (2008), ed. by Ronda Hughes (illustrated HTML at NIH)

• The Heart of the Home (picture edition; New York: American Heart Association, ca. 1949), by New York Heart Association (page images at HathiTrust)

• Nurse and Patient, by William Osler (HTML at websiteasksam.com)

• Beyond the Therapeutic Alliance: Keeping the Drug-Dependent Individual in Treatment, ed. by Lisa Simon Onken, Jack D. Blaine, and John J. Boren (PDF files at NIH)

• Communicational Structure: Analysis of a Psychotherapy Transaction (Bloomington, IN and London: Indiana University Press, c1973), by Albert E. Scheflen (HTML with commentary at Project MUSE)
• The First Five Minutes: A Sample of Microscopic Interview Analysis (Ithaca, NY: P. Martineau, 1960), by Robert E. Pittenger, Charles Francis Hockett, and John J. Danehy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Who Survives Cancer? (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Howard P. Greenwald (HTML at UC Press)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.