Links and Books

(agk) Library – Feb 2021

Useful sites

Street Safety wiki, particularly:

• Stay Safe in the Streets
• Blunt Trauma
• Wounds
• First Response for Extreme Distress
• Best First Aid Guides for Protesters

Henriette's Herbal, particularly the search function and Thomas's 1907 Eclectic Practice of Medicine.

WikiEm, the global emergency medicine wiki, particularly the search function.

Hesperian's HealthWiki, particularly its most-viewed pages:

• Pain in the Belly or Gut from New Where There Is No Doctor.
• Complications of Abortion from Where Women Have No Doctor.
• Clean and Sterilize Tools from A Book For Midwives.
• How to Examine a Woman’s Genitals (the Pelvic Exam) from Where Women Have No Doctor.
• Bowel control from A Health Handbook for Women With Disabilities.
• Treatment for Pesticide Poisoning from A Community Guide to Environmental Health.
• Teaching So Learning Can Take Place from Where There Is No Dentist.
• Causes of Disability from A health Handbook for Women With Disabilities.
• What Causes Gender-Based Violence? from Health Actions for Women.
• A Community Solid Waste Program from A Community Guide to Environmental Health.

Other documents

• Sick Care at Home
  • Basic needs
  • Community care
  • Infection control
  • Care for someone who is sick
  • Warning signs and emergency
  • Special care for a person who is very ill
  • Communication
  • Healing without medicines
  • Healing with water
  • Times when water may do more good than medicines
  • Sources: Caring for someone at home (CDC, 18 Mar), Where There Is No Doctor (Hesperian, 1992), Chapter 4, How to take care of a sick person and chapter 5, Healing without medicines, Care packages provided by South Korean government (a model for mutual aid care packages), Covid comfort care card and kit (3 Jun).
• Tips for First Responders on how to assist seniors and other people with assistive needs.
  • Seniors
  • People with service animals
  • People with mobility impairments
  • People with autism
  • People who are deaf or hard of hearing
  • People who are blind or visually impaired
  • People with cognitive disabilities
  • People with multiple chemical sensitivities
  • People who are mentally ill
  • Childbearing women and newborns
  • People with seizure disorders
  • People with brain injuries
• How to examine a sick person
  • Infection control
  • Questions
  • General condition
  • Temperature
  • Breathing
  • Pulse
  • Eyes
  • Ears, throat and nose
  • Skin
  • The belly
  • Muscles and nerves