Tag: Health and Safety
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There’s a Thin Person Inside You!
There’s a Thin Person Inside You! Schoenthaler 1983 Submitter: This book was in our nursing library (in a community college) and it’s all kinds of wrong! I’ll start with the cover. Ew. Next, fat people are referred to as “fatty’s” and surely if you’re fat you must be completely miserable! Overall,…
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Not your Mama’s Period
Girls Guide to Menstruation Voelckers 1975 Actually this might be your Mom’s period book. First, I am trying to figure out what is with this cover. Is it modern art or looking up in a forest? Is it symbolic? So, what does it all mean? Second, do I really need…
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“Modern” Health
Modern Health Otto, Cloyd, and Tether 1955 Submitter: I work in an academic library and, while weeding through the Rs, found this treasure trove of bad information. As a health textbook from 1955, what’s not awful about this book? Shock therapy is the primary treatment for most mental illnesses; those…
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Doughnuts made me do it!
Diet, Crime, and Delinquency Schauss 1981 From the back of the book: “…demonstrates how ‘junk’ food diets, sugar starvation, vitamin deficiencies, lead pollution and food allergies can convert a normal brain into a criminal mind.” I love the picture on the cover. “Gimme your doughnuts, punk!” This is available in…
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Teeth are fun
The Tooth Survival Book American Dental Association 1977 I think it is a great idea for there to be a book about dental care for kids. I don’t know how much is different in terms of dental care since 1977, so we shouldn’t weed based on age alone. My gripe…
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Looking Sharp!
The Franklin Watts Concise Guide to Good Grooming for Boys Saunders 1972 I am not even going to wonder what the librarian was smoking when they kept this on the shelf. I pray it is just one of those pathetic things that just falls through the cracks and not someone…
Awful Library Books 