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eBook Collection by EBSCOhost

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Recent Titles in Print

Find these titles and many more in the Reference and circulating collections on Montgomery Library's main floor.

REFERENCE    
REF Q 127 .U6 O95 2014   The Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of American Science, Medicine & Technology
REF QM 25 .N46 2019   Atlas of Human Anatomy
REF R 121 .R633 2014   English-Spanish, Spanish-English Medical Dictionary
REF RC 48 .P76 2020   Procedures for Primary Care 4th ed.
REF RC 112 .I4577 2019 Vol. 1-3   Infectious Diseases & Conditions
RC 394 .C7 S73 2021   The Brain on Youth Sports: The Science, the Myths, and the Future
REF RC 455.2 .C4 A48 2022    Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: DSM-5-TR
REF RM 671 .A1 H36 2018   Handbook of Nonprescription Drugs
     
MEDICINE - PUBLIC ASPECTS    
RA 395 .A3 K45 2021     Exploring American Healthcare Through 50 Historic Treasures
RA 418.5 .M4 T37 2021   Intervolution
RA 440.3 .A8 H44 2020   Health Promotion in the 21st Century: New Approaches to Achieving Health for All
RA 448.5 .N4 V55 2022     Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on Health in America
RA 563 .M56 M28 2022   Just Health: Treating Structural Racism to Heal America
RA 564.86 .B533 2022     Black Women and Public Health: Strategies to Name, Locate, and Change Systems of Power
RA 638 .H38 2019   Anti / Vax
RA 644 .C67 B35 2021   Fighting the First Wave: Why the Coronavirus Was Tackled So Differently Across the Globe
RA 644 .C67 C677 2021   Coronavirus Politics: The Comparative Politics and Policy of COVID-19
RA 644 .V55 2021   Viruses, Pandemics, and Immunity
RA 645 .C3 W44 2019   Poverty and Place: Cancer Prevention Among Low-Income Women of Color
RA 649 .C47 2021   The History of the World in 100 Pandemics, Plagues and Epidemics: From Prehistory to COVID-19
RA 650.5 .H665 2019   The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris
RA 651 .S58 2022     A Geography of Infection: Spatial Processes and Patterns in Epidemics and Pandemics
RA 790.75 .G37 2022   Pursuing a Career in Mental Health: A Comprehensive Guide for Aspiring Professionals
RA 1212 .H833 2019   Poison: The History of Potions, Powders, and Murderous Practitioners
     
SOCIAL AND PUBLIC WELFARE    
HV 699 .C775 2023     Policing Pregnant Bodies: From Ancient Greece to Post-Roe America
HV 6250.4 .W65 D475 2022   Every 90 Seconds: Our Common Cause Ending Violence Against Women
HV 6250.4 .W65 B869 2022   Gender Violence: Resistance, Resilience, and Autonomy
HV 6626.2 .B56 2023   Violence Never Heals: The Lifelong Effects of Intimate Partner Violence for Immigrant Women
     
POLITICAL SCIENCE    
JK 1726 .T54 2024     The Invented State: Policy Misperceptions in the American Public
     
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE    
GE 235 .C25 K56 2021   Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA
     
SPORTS    
GV 706.4 .L55 2022   Lifestyle Sports and Identities: Subcultural Careers through the Life Course
GV 836.4 .C37 2022   Shifting Currents: A World History of Swimming
RC 394 .C7 S73 2021   The Brain on Youth Sports: The Science, the Myths, and the Future 
RC 1230 .H46 2022   Doping: A Sporting History
     
INDUSTRIES / LABOR    
HD 9019 .M382 U625 2022   Can Legal Weed Win?: The Blunt Realities of Cannabis Economics
HD 9675 .V334 M645 2022     The Messenger: Moderna, the Vaccine, and the Business Gamble that Changed the World
     
FAMILY/ MARRIAGE    
HQ 77.9 .M25 2022   Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad
     
EDUCATION    
LC 1011 .P32 2022    What We Value: Public Health, Social Justice, and Educating for Democracy
     
SCIENCE (GENERAL)        
Q 175.32 .K45 M328 2022    Understanding How Science Explains the World
QR 189 .G64 V33 2021   Vaccine Hesitancy: Public Trust, Expertise and the War on Science
QH 447 .G74 2021   CRISPR People: The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans
QR 189 .R36413 2022   Vaccines In The Global Era: How To Deal Safely And Effectively With The Pandemics Of Our Time
QZ 201 .H584u 2022   Understanding Cancer
     
MEDICINE - GENERAL    
R 692 .N56 2021   The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women - and Women to Medicine
R 723 .S775 2018   Care & Cure: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Medicine
R 724 .S34 2018   Rethinking Health Care Ethics
R 726.8 .P764 2021   Challenges and Choices for Patient, Carer and Professional at the End of Life
RC 1230 .H46 2022   Doping: A sporting history
     
PATHOLOGY    
RB 113 .M35 2019   Pathophysiology: The Biologic Basis for Disease in Adults and Children 
     
INTERNAL MEDICINE    
RC 108 .O765 2022   The Invisible Kingdom: Reimaging Chronic Illness
RC 268.48 .A76 2020   Rebel Cell: Cancer, Evolution, and the New Science of Life's Oldest Betrayal
RC 386 .P475 2023   A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain
RC 514 .K648 2021   Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
RC 523.2 .H47 2022     Diary of an Alzheimer's Caregiver
RC 552 .C65 P76 2020   Processed Food Addiction: Foundations, Assessment, and Recovery
RC 596 .R54 2019   Food Allergies and Sensitivities 
RC 628 .W34 2019   The Truth about Fat
RC 630 .F596 2020   Fluids & Electrolytes Made Incredibly Easy!
RC 674 .C3585 2020   Cardiovascular Care Made Incredibly Easy!
RC 683.5 .E5 E33 2021   EKG ECG Interpretation Made Easy
     
GYNECOLOGY & OBSTETRICS    
RG 137 .D5 2020   Managing Contraceptive Pill Patients and Managing Hormone Replacement
RG 962.5 .I6 T44 2019   Reproduction on the Reservation: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century
     
NURSING    
RT 4 .T63 2022     Dr. Nurse: Science, Politics, and the Transformation of American Nursing
     
PEDIATRICS    
RJ 399 .C6 B33 2019   Weighty Problems: Embodied Inequality at a Children's Weight Loss Camp
     
THERAPEUTICS & PHARMACOLOGY    
RM 666 .C266 C47 2022     Marijuana on My Mind: The Science and Mystique of Cannabis
     
TOURISM    
TD 171.75 .G86 2023   Climate Travels: How Ecotourism Changes Mindsets and Motivates Action
     
MILITARY SCIENCE    
UB 369 .W678 2018   Wounds of War: How the VA Delivers Health, Healing, an Hope to the Nation's Veterans
UB 418.T72 W58 2022   With Honor and Integrity: Transgender Troops in their Own Words

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Browse the Collection

Use these call numbers to browse the reference and circulating collections on Montgomery Library's first floor.

Library of Congress Classification Guide for Public Health 

QH 301-705.5   Biology (General)
QH 359-425   Evolution
QH 426-470   Genetics
QH 471-489   Reproduction
QH 501-531   Life
QH 540-549.5   Ecology
QH 573-671   Cytology
QH 705-705.5   Economic biology
     
QR 1-502             Microbiology
QR 1-74.5   General Microbiology
QR 75-99.5   Bacteria
QR 99.6-99.8   Cyanobacteria
QR 100-130   Microbial ecology
QR 171   Microorganisms in the animal body
QR 180-189.5   Immunology
QR 355-502   Virology
     
R                   Medicine                                                                                            
RA   Public aspects of medicine, regulations, disease, immunity
RB   Pathology
RC   Internal and popular medicine, neurology, psychiatry, sports medicine 
RD   Surgery, emergency surgery, surgical nursing
RE   Ophthalmology, ophthalmic nursing
RG         Gynecology and obstetrics
RJ   Pediatrics, pediatric nursing
RK   Dentistry
RL   Dermatology
RM   Therapeutics, pharmacology
RS   Pharmacy and materia medica
RT   Nursing, specialties in nursing
RX   Homeopathy
RZ   Other systems of medicine, chiropractic, osteopathy and mental healing


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