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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