Life and Health 2

I hadn't intended to run this sequel to Life and Health, but: Three months without a 50 Watts CRM textbook post is too long for me; I had already done all the work; and some of these are damn cool. So here it is!

As I explained in the previous post:

Communications Research Machines published Life and Health in 1972. I started to collect CRM's intentionally or unintentionally psychedelic publications after finding a copy of Biology Today in a bookstore's discard pile. Other early-seventies gems I plan to feature include Psychology Today and Developmental Psychology Today. (If searching for your own copies, pay attention to the dates as apparently subsequent editions are toned down.) For a fuller picture of Life and Health, see my previous posts featuring the surreal paintings of Phil Kirkland and the diagrams of Tom Lewis.

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Karl Nicholason

Figure 24.4 The nine contributing factors to heath disease include overeating, saturated fats and cholesterol, obesity, sedentary living, smoking, alcohol, diabetes, stress, and a family history that exhibits tendencies toward heart disease

Karl Nicholason

Chapter title page: Controlling Drug Use and Abuse

Felicia Fry

Figure 21.8 Life expectancies and infant mortality rates for selected countries. Note the low comparative position of the United States.

Ignacio Gomez

Chapter title page: Nutrition

Millsap/Kinyon

The muscular system

Diane McDermott

Section title page: Foundations of Health Science

Diane McDermott

In the section "More than the sum of its parts"

Reproduced from Triangle, The Sandoz Journal of Medical Science

Howard Saunders

Figure 5.3 There are a number of ways in which society can interfere with the needs and desire of the individual, providing him with another source of psychological stress.

Diane McDermott

detail

Susan Anson

Figure 26.8 Water pollution, air pollution, noise pollution, overpopulation—all take their daily toll in deterioration of the individual's overall health.

Karl Nicholason

Figure 8.7 Technological progress has made intoxication a much more serious problem than it was even sixty years ago because of the possible damage that can be done by an individual working or driving under the effects of alcohol.

Patty Peck

Figure 7.3 The opium poppy and its derivatives.

Ron Estrine, after Penfield and Rasmussen, The Cerebral Cortex of Man

Young & Rubicam

Figure 18.1 An unfortunate "by-product" of the technological advances of the twentieth century has been the instigation and perpetuation of a sedentary society. Unlike their ancestors, who were forced to labor to heat their homes, collect water, gather food, and so on, most Americans get far too little exercise, so that today, although infectious diseases have been largely conquered, Americans are being killed by life styles and attitudes that admit little time for exercise.