[New York]: [The Committee for Decent Health Care], [1973]. A bilingual pamphlet issued by the Committee for Decent Health Care on behalf of patients and community members of the Lower East Side who either work or receive care at Gouverneur Hospital. The group demands the end to racist hiring practices..... More
New Jersey: Natural Hygiene Society, [195-?]. A flyer announcing an appearance by Canadian farmer and naturalist, John H. Tobe, who published a popular book on the longevity of the Hunza people: Hunza: Adventures in a Land of Paradise (1960,) after living among them. The event was sponsored by the New..... More
Fremont, California: The Voice for the Unborn, [1979?]. A one-off newspaper published by Voice for the Unborn, a pro-life organization based in Fremont, CA, on best practices for distributing pro-life literature on high school and college campuses. Tabloid format printed in black & burgundy on newsprint, 8 p., photographs. Wilcox..... More
Los Angeles: National Pure Water Committee, [1954?]. First edition. Tri-fold brochure (3 ” x 8 ½”) from a Christian Nationalist Crusade front group called the National Pure Water Committee claiming that water fluoridation is a Communist plot to brainwash Americans. Unfolds to a photostat reproduction of a Fort Worth newspaper..... More
![Item #10396 When You Were Formed in Secret [bound dos-à-dos with] Abortion in America. Gary...](/pictures/thumb/10396.jpg?v=1671813097)
Elyria, Ohio: Intercessors for America, ©1980. Two pro-life pamphlets bound as one written by Gary Bergel, both with remarks by Surgeon General C. Everett Koop. In When You Were Formed in Secret, Bergel argues for life at conception and provides a scientific timeline for the 9 month gestation. Abortion in..... More
London: Londinium Press, 1979. A classic of the intactivist movement, and one of the first anti-circumcision books written for the public. Carter, a journalist who cut his teeth in theatre and broadcasting, traces, with “righteous indignation,” the historical, religious, medical, hygienic and social aspects of circumcision. Curiously, although the book..... More
Los Angeles: Keep America Committee, 1959. Reprint. The author traces her health problems to a massive conspiracy by Jews to demineralize the food supply in order to mentally and physically destabilize the white race. A bizarre account first published in 1948 by Lyrl Clark van Hyning's "Women's Voice," the organ..... More
Rockford, Illinois: Tan Books and Publishers, Inc., 1979. Eighth edition. Pro-life treatise from the physician, John L. Grady, with a foreword by Senator Jesse Helms. Stapled wrappers (5 ¼” x 8 ¼”), 32 p., photographs of aborted fetuses and full-term babies. About Fine. More
Wilmington, Ohio: Hygienic Productions, ©1947. Thirty-second printing. A sex ed guide for the “average mother, wife and growing daughter” that explores puberty, masturbation, the male and female sex organs, menopause, marriage, pregnancy, abortion, sterility, venereal disease, etc. Includes a chapter on “Woman’s Sexual Duties To Husband.” Stapled wrappers (9” x...... More
New York: The American Mercury, [1958]. An offprint from the right-wing publication “The American Mercury” on the increase in DDT production and spraying and its attendant health consequences. Longgood contends that the U.S.’s recent pest infestation is due to poor soil fertility, which is then exacerbated by poisoning the soil..... More
![Item #07137 Contour Correction [Gravity Guiding for Health and Beauty - Cover title]. R. Manatt...](/pictures/thumb/07137.jpg?v=1574821337)
n.p.: Published by the author? ©1961. First edition. Illustrated, stapled wrappers (5 ½” x 8 ”), 23 pp, illus. Shallow grazing evident to the bottom corners near spine, else a clean Near Fine copy. Not found in OCLC. A scarce and early pamphlet from the renowned doctor, osteopath, chiropractor and former..... More
Northport, NY: Twenty-First Century Media Inc., 1974. A single issue of this short-lived newsletter “dedicated to creating open, humanistic environments for better interpersonal communication and to exploring the phenomenon of synergy, the coming together of people, ideas and environments for creation of something greater than the sum of the parts”..... More
Berkeley: Printed by Inkworks, 1989. A poster celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the Berkeley Community Health Project, a “community-based, volunteer-run organization dedicated to providing quality health care and health education to all in need, regardless of ability to pay.” Offset lithograph of a polychromatic silkscreen (18” x 27”). Light wear..... More