WB
Practice of Medicine
Schedule Contents
Cf. QZ 17 for tissue pathology of disease.
Classify here materials on education in the special systems of therapeutics or other topics specific to this schedule. Classify materials on general medical education in W 18.
Classify works on medical informatics, data processing or computers used in medicine in W 26.5 or by subject.
Cf. WM 29-29.1 Mental health facilities. Classify works on rehabilitation hospitals in WB 27-28.
Includes works dealing with private practice. Classify works on health services in general in W 84-84.3.
Classify here works dealing with traditional medicine as currently practiced. Use WZ for the history of traditional medicine.
Classify works on military medicine in WD 900-939.
Classify here works on physical and medical rehabilitation in general as well as those that include educational, social, and vocational rehabilitation. Classify works on specific types, by type, e.g., Physical therapy WB 460. Classify works with no medical slant in HD 7255-7256.
Cf. QV Pharmacology.
Classify here works on surgical and non-surgical procedures. Classify works limited to sex reassignment surgery in WO 620.
Classify works on diets to be used with particular diseases with the disease. Classify works on normal dietary practice in QT 235. Classify works on nutrition and food values in QU 145-145.5. Classify works on diet or nutrition therapy in children in WS 115-132; in the aged WT 115.
Classify here general cookbooks. Classify cookbooks for a particular disease or diet, with the disease or diet. Classify cookbooks for diabetic diets in WK 819.
Includes dietary use of plants in health and disease.
Classify works on occupational therapy in psychiatry in WM 450.5.O2.
Classify works on recreation therapy in psychotherapy in WM 450.5.R4.
Classify works on diseases that are associated primarily with a particular ethnic group, when treated as such. Classify works on general health problems of ethnic groups in WA 300.
Classify works on cupping in WB 371; on diet fads in WB 449; on vegetarianism in WB 430; on mental healing in WB 880-885. Classify works on a specific disease with the disease. Classify works on complementary therapies to treat mental disorders in WM 413.
Includes history. Cf. BP 595-597 General works.