http://www.metafilter.com/tags/villagehealth Posts tagged with 'villagehealth' at MetaFilter. Tue, 09 Oct 2007 03:34:33 -0800 Tue, 09 Oct 2007 03:34:33 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/65390/Where%2Dthere%2Dis%2Dno%2Ddoctor <a href="http://www.hesperian.org/publications_download_wtnd.php">"Where there is no doctor",</a> a "village health-care handbook", was originally published by Mexican health activists in <a href="http://www.hesperian.org/about_history.php">1973</a> as a response to a critical lack of medical care among Mexico's poor. Now available for free download, the book covers such topics as "<a href="http://www.hesperian.info/assets/WTND/WTND_Chapter_20.pdf">Family Planning</a>" [pdf], <a href="http://www.hesperian.info/assets/WTND/WTND_Chapter_5.pdf">Healing without Medicines</a> [pdf], <a href="http://www.hesperian.info/assets/WTND/WTND_Green_Pages.pdf">Common Medicines, their uses and doses</a> [pdf], <a href="http://www.hesperian.info/assets/WTND/WTND_Chapter_6.pdf">the right and wrong uses of modern medicines</a> [pdf], and (in the <a href="http://www.hesperian.org/publications_download_midwives.php">midwives edition</a>) <a href="http://www.hesperian.info/assets/Midwives/MW-23.pdf">DIY abortion</a> [pdf]. Other topics include: <a href="http://www.hesperian.org/publications_download_wwhnd.php">Where Women have no doctor</a>, <a href="http://www.hesperian.info/assets/wwhnd/wwhnd_ch18_vio.pdf">violence against women</a>, <a href="http://www.hesperian.info/assets/wwhnd/wwhnd_ch27_mental.pdf">mental health for women</a>, <a href="http://www.hesperian.info/assets/wwhnd/wwhnd_ch30_fgc.pdf">Female genital cutting</a>, <a href="http://www.hesperian.org/publications_download_dentist.php">Where There Is No Dentist</a>, <a href="http://www.hesperian.org/publications_download_hiv.php">HIV health and your community</a> and <a href="http://www.hesperian.org/publications_download.php">more</a>. Special thanks to MetaFilter's own <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/14210">mr. bill</a> for introducing me to this resource and providing a the downloads in convenient <a href="http://www.mrbill.net/survival/">single-pdf format</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.65390 Tue, 09 Oct 2007 03:34:33 -0800 DIY emergency health HIV medicine mentalhealth themoreyouknow village villagehealth women womenshealth Avenger