DEWEY NUMBERS USED FOR SOCIAL PROBLEMS 

Abortion 363.46   179.76 (Ethics)
                        618.88 (Surgery)

Adolescent Pregnancy 362.7   618.2 (Obstetrics)
                                         305.489 (Social Group)

Aging 362.6   305.26 (Social Group)
                   323.354 (Civil Rights)
                   618.97 (Geriatrics)

AIDS 362.196 616.979 (Medicine)

Alcohol Abuse 362.292   616.861 (Medicine)
                                  613.81 (Substance Abuse)

Birth Control,
Family Planning 363.96   176 (Ethics)
                                  613.94 (Health)

Censorship 363.31   344.053 (Law)

Child Abuse 362.76   364.155 (Crime)
                             616.858 (Medicine)

Civil Rights 361.614   323.4 (Political Science)

Death and Dying 306.9   179.7 (Medical Ethics)
                                  616.78 (Medicine)

Drug Abuse 362.29   616.86 (Medicine)
                             613.8 (Substance Abuse)

Laboring Classes 362.85

Mental Retardation 362.3   305.908 (Social Group)

Mentally Ill 362.2   305.908 (Social Group)

Orphans 362.73

Physical Disabilities 362.4   305.908 (Social Group)

Pollution 363.73   304.28 (Social Effects), 574.5 (Ecological Effects)

Population Explosion 363.9   304.6 (Sociology)

Pornography 363.47   364.174 (Crime)

Poverty 362.5   305.56 (Social Group), 305.569 (Homeless)

Rape 362.883   364.153 (Crime)

Refugees 362.87   325.21 (Political Science)

Right to Die, 179.7 (Ethics), 174.24 (Medical Ethics) Euthanasia

Runaway/Missing Young People 362.74   305.906 (Social Group)

Spouse or Parent Abuse 362.829   179.7 (Ethics)

Suicide 362.28   179.7 (Ethics)
Technology 303.483   306.46 (Sociology)

Work 306.36 174 (Ethics)

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