Collection Development Policy Statement: Medicine

R

5-920

Medicine (General)

4

5-130.5

General Works

4

131-687

History of Medicine, Medical Expeditions (See also: American History collection policy)

4

690-697

Medicine as a Profession, Physicians

3

702-703

Medicine and Disease in Relation to History, Literature, etc.(See appropriate other collection policies in humanities)

2

713-713.97

Directories

1

722-722.32

Missionary Medicine, Medical Missionaries

0

723-726

Medical Philosophy, Medical Ethics

4

726.5-726.8

Medicine and Disease in Relation to Psychology, Terminal Care, Dying

4

727-727.8

Physician and the Public

3

728-733

Practice of Medicine, Medical Practice Economics

3

735-854

Medical Education, Medical Schools, Research

4

856-857

Biomedical Engineering, Electronics, Instrumentation (see biomedical/biological sciences collection policy)

-

858-859.7

Computer Applications to Medicine

4
 

864

Medical Records

2

895-920

Medical Physics, Medical Radiology, Nuclear Medicine

4

RA

1-1270

Public Aspects of Medicine

4

396

Regulation of Medical Education, Licensure

2

398

Registration of Physicians, Pharmacists, etc.

1

399

Regulation of Medical Practice, Evaluation and Quality Control of Medical Care

2

405

Death Certification

1

407-790.85

See Public Health Collection Policy

790-790.85

Mental Health

4

791-954

Medical Geography, Medical Climatology and Meteorology

3

960-999

Medical Centers, Hospitals, Dispensaries, Clinics
(including ambulance service and nursing homes)

1

1001-1171

Forensic Medicine, Medical Jurisprudence, Legal Medicine

3

1190-1270

Toxicology, Poisons (for environmental toxicology see Public Health Policy)

4

RB

1-214

Pathology (for RB 27-145 see also: Allied Health Collection Policy)

4

37-56

Clinical Pathology, Laboratory Technique (see also: Allied Health Collection Policy)

-

57

Post-Mortem Examination, Autopsies

2

RC

31-1245

Internal Medicine, Practice of Medicine

4 

81-82

Popular Medicine

1

306-320.5

Tuberculosis

3

321-571

Neurology and Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatry

4 

490-499

Hypnotism and Hypnosis, Suggestion Therapy

0

500-510

Psychoanalysis

2

581-951

Specialties of Internal Medicine

4 

RD

1-811

Surgery

 4

58

Reparative Processes After Operations (Physiological)

2

63-76

Operating Rooms and Theaters, Instruments, Apparatus, and Appliances

2

701-811

Orthopedics

 4

RE

1-994

Opthamology

 3

88

Ophthalmic Nursing   (see Nursing policy)

- 

918-988

Optometry, vision tests, errors of refraction, artificial eyes, etc…

0

991-992

Ocular Therapeutics

2

RF

1-547

Otorhinolaryngology (Ear, Nose, Throat)

 4

RG

1-991

Gynecology and Obstetrics

 4

RJ

1-570

Pediatrics

 4

RK

1-715

Dentistry

 1

RL

1-803

Dermatology

 4

RM

1-931

Therapeutics, Pharmacology

4

138

Drug Prescribing

3

139

Prescription Writing

1

146-146.7

Misues of Therapeutic Drugs, Medication Errors

2

147-180

Administration of Drugs and Other Therapeutic Agents

3

182-190

Other Therapeutic Procedures
(including acupuncture, pneumatic aspiration, spinal puncture, pericardial puncture)

2

214-258

Diet Therapy, Diet and Dietetics in Disease, Dietary Cookbooks (see also: Food Science & Human Nutrition collection policy)

3

259

Vitamin Therapy

2

671-671.5

Commercial Preparations, Patent Medicines

1

695-890

Physical Medicine, Physical Therapy

 3

845-862

Medical Radiology

4

930-931

Rehabilitation Therapy

4

RS

1-441

Pharmacy and Materia Medica

2

125-131.9

Formularies, Collected Prescriptions

3

153-441

Materia Medica

2

192-199

Pharmaceutical Processes

0

200-201

Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms

0

250-252

Commercial Preparations, Patent Medicines

1

355-356

Pharmaceutical Supplies

0

400-431

Pharmaceutical Chemistry

3

441

Microscopical Examination of Drugs

1

RV

1-431

Botanic, Thomsonian, and Eclectic Medicine

0

RX

1-681

Homeopathy

 0

RZ

201-999

Other Systems of Medicine

0

301-397.5

Osteopathy  

4