Home Resource Library suggestions January 1998

A Family Physician’s Recommendations for Family Health References

This is really quite an extensive wish-list. A great deal of paring down can be done depending on what funds allow. There would probably be some additions over time as new resources are encountered.

Adolescent Medicine

Author(s), pages, year

Source, Publisher, Price, Phone

Keeping Youth Drug Free

Natl Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information

800-729-6686

Teen talk

AMA

312-464-5570

New Teenage Body Book

McCoy & Wibbelsman, 1992

Berkley Publishing 800-788-6262

You & Your Adolescent: A Parent’s Guide

Steinberg & Levine, 1997

HarperCollins Pub

Nutrition

Family Health Cookbook

Barnard, Melanie, 528pp

AMA $30, 800-621-8335

Eat More, Weigh Less

Dean Ornish, 460pp, 1993

$7

1 Year of Healthy, Hearty & Simple One-Dish Meals

Spaude & Owan-McMenamin, 406 pp

$15

Quick & Easy Cookbook

274pp

AHA, $25, 800-611-6083

General Medicine

Reversing Heart Disease

Dean Ornish, 600pp, 1996

$7

American Heart Association Guide to Heart Attacks

AHA, 300pp, 1996

AHA, $15

A Healing Heart

Norman Cousins

The Fibromyalgia Help Book

Fransen & Russell, 240 pp

FMS, Inc, $18, 800-853-2929

Fibromyalgia and You

90-min Video, $35-

Fibromyalgia Information Resources

POBox 690402

San Antonio, TX 78269

Mitral Valve Prolapse

#10

Krames, $15, 800-333-3032

Iritable Bowel Syndrome

#50

Krames, $15, 800-333-3032

Asthma:Learning to Control Your Symptoms

Video (#R1597), $15

AAFP, 800-944-0000

Immunity

Bock & Bock

Your Thyroid

Wood, 240pp, 1995

$6

Treating Sinus, Migraine & Cluster Headaches My Way

Walsh, 260pp, 1993

$13

Treating Food Allergy My Way

Walsh

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Fisher, 240pp, 1997

$12

Attention Deficit Disorder in Adults

Weiss, 209pp, 1997

$13

Diabetes

Diabetes: A Guide to Living Well (Type I)

Lowe & Arsham, 400 pp

$13

Managing Type II Diabetes

Monk, Arlene, 148 pp

International Diabetes Center, $10

Raising a Child with diabetes

ADA, $15, 800-232-6733

Month of Meals for Diabetes

vols 1-5

ADA, $56

Diabetic Foot Care

#10

Krames, $13.50

American Diabetic Association Guide to Diabetes

ADA, 460pp, 1996

ADA, $7

Exchange Lists for Meal Planning

#25

ADA, $37.50

Geriatrics

Growing Younger Handbook & Workshop (Seniors)

Healthwise,

208-345-1161

Family Guide to Stroke

320pp

AHA, $23

Alzheimer’s Disease

#10

Krames, $15, 800-333-3032

67 Ways to Good Sleep

Charles Inlander, 88pp, 1995

$8

How Stroke Affects Behaviour

38pp

AHA, $6.50

Pediatrics

For Kids: Checking your Airways

#50

Krames, $12.50

For Kids: Your Asthma medicine

#50

Krames, $12.50

Asthma

#10

Krames, $13.50

Toddlers & Parents

T Berry Brazelton

Dr. Larry Silver’s Advice to Parents on ADHD

Silver, 1993

Amer Psych Press

Helping your Hyperactive child

Taylor, 482pp, 1997

$18

Don’t Be Afraid to Discipline

Peters, 200pp, 1997

$19

What to Expect the First Year

Eisenberg

Workman

What to Expect the Toddler Years

Eisenberg, 670pp, 1989

Workman, $22

Natural Parenting

Walker, 144pp, 1987

$13

Parents Little Book of Lists: Do’s & Dont’s of Effective Parenting

Blustein, 336pp, 1997

$11

Preventive Medicine

Healthwise Handbook & Workshop (Medical self-care)

Healthwise, 300 pp

208-345-1161

Pathways Success Guide & Health Workshop (healthy changes)

Healthwise,

208-345-1161

Shiatsu

Ohashi

Spntaneous Healing

Andrew Weil, 300pp, 1995

$13

Family Health and Medical Guide

AAFP

AAFP, $30

Clinician’s Handbook of Preventive Services

US Dept HHS, 1997

Ob/Gyn

Breast Lumps

#10

Krames, $13.50

Kegel Exercises

#25

Krames, $10

Abnormal Pap Test Results

#10

Krames, $11

Natural Pregnancy

Balaskas, 93pp, 1990

$13

What to Expect when you’re Expecting

Eisenberg

Workman

Orthopedics

Back Owner’s manual

#10

Krames, $13.50

Neck Owner’s manual

#10

Krames, $13.50

Shoulder Owner’s manual

#10

Krames, $13.50

Knee owner’s manual

#10

Krames, $13.50

Elbow owner’s manual

#10

Krames, $13.50

Hand&Wrist owner’s manual

#10

Krames, $13.50

Foot owner’s manual

#10

Krames, $13.50

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

#10

Krames, $15

Diabetes for Today and Tomorrow

Saudek, et al, 420 pp, 1997

Johns Hopkins Univ Press, $17

36-Hour Day

Mace & Rabins, 329 pp, 1991

Johns Hopkins Univ Press, $12

Staying Dry

Burgio & Pearce, 168 pp, 1989

JHU Press, $13, 800-537-5487

Lyme Disease

Barbour, Alan, 250 pp, 1996

JHU Press, $16, 800-537-5487

The Prostate

Walsh & Worthington, 320 pp, 1995

JHU Press, $16, 800-537-5487

Getting the Most out of Your Medicines

Thorson, Kristin, 50 pp

FMS ,Inc, $10, 800-853-2929

Guide to Children

Benjamin Spock, 830pp, 1992

$8

Living with Rheumatoid Arthritis

ARA

7 Habits of Highly Effective Families

Covey, Stephen, 360 pp

Golden Books $30, 800-372-6839

Everything You Need to Know About Medical Tests

Moore, et al, 690 pp,

Springhouse

Getting the Most out of your Hearing Aids

30-min Video, 1994

Starkey/ CDR, 800-729-2237

How to Cope With heartburn

10-min Video, 1996

Janssen

Philip A. Gilly, MD, FAAFP
Family Practice Board Certified