BISAC Subject Headings List
Health and Fitness
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HEALTH & FITNESS
Use subjects in this section for works aimed at nonprofessionals. For scholarly works and/or works aimed at medical or health care professionals, use subjects in the MEDICAL section.
Subjects beginning with "HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions" are intended for popular works that discuss preventing or coping with a specific disease or condition and/or for popular works describing the experiences of people with a specific disease or condition. For scholarly or professional works discussing diseases, use subjects in the MEDICAL section that pertain to the branch of medicine that studies the disease in question (if no specific branch of medicine applies, use subjects in the MEDICAL section for the specific disease or type of disease): for example, a textbook about cancer would be assigned a heading beginning with "MEDICAL / Oncology"; a clinical work on AIDS research would be assigned "MEDICAL / AIDS & HIV".
HEA000000 HEALTH & FITNESS / General
HEA001000 HEALTH & FITNESS / Acupressure & Acupuncture (see also MEDICAL / Acupuncture)
HEA027000 HEALTH & FITNESS / Allergies
HEA032000 HEALTH & FITNESS / Alternative Therapies
HEA029000 HEALTH & FITNESS / Aromatherapy
HEA003000 HEALTH & FITNESS / Beauty & Grooming
HEA047000 HEALTH & FITNESS / Body Cleansing & Detoxification
HEA044000 HEALTH & FITNESS / Breastfeeding
HEA053000 HEALTH & FITNESS / Cannabis & CBD
HEALTH & FITNESS / Childbirth see Pregnancy & Childbirth
HEA046000 HEALTH & FITNESS / Children's Health
HEA048000 HEALTH & FITNESS / Diet & Nutrition / General
HEA006000 HEALTH & FITNESS / Diet & Nutrition / Diets
HEA034000 HEALTH & FITNESS / Diet & Nutrition / Food Content Guides
HEA013000 HEALTH & FITNESS / Diet & Nutrition / Macrobiotics
HEA017000 HEALTH & FITNESS / Diet & Nutrition / Nutrition
HEA023000 HEALTH & FITNESS / Diet & Nutrition / Vitamins
HEA019000 HEALTH & FITNESS / Diet & Nutrition / Weight Loss
HEA039000 HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / General
HEA039020 HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / AIDS & HIV
HEA039140 HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / Alzheimer's & Dementia
HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / Brain see Diseases & Conditions / Nervous System (incl. Brain)
HEA039030 HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / Cancer
HEA039150 HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
HEA039040 HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / Contagious (incl. Pandemics)
HEA039050 HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / Diabetes
HEA039160 HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / Endocrine System
HEA039010 HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / Gastrointestinal
HEA039060 HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / Genetic
HEA039070 HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / Genitourinary & STDs
HEA039170 HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / Headaches & Migraines
HEA039080 HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / Heart
HEA039090 HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / Immune & Autoimmune
HEA039100 HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / Musculoskeletal
HEA039110 HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / Nervous System (incl. Brain)
HEA039120 HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / Respiratory
HEA039130 HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / Skin
HEA007000 HEALTH & FITNESS / Exercise / General
HEA002000 HEALTH & FITNESS / Exercise / Aerobics
HEA007010 HEALTH & FITNESS / Exercise / Aquatic
HEA007020 HEALTH & FITNESS / Exercise / Dance
HEA007040 HEALTH & FITNESS / Exercise / Interval Training (incl. HIIT)
HEA007030 HEALTH & FITNESS / Exercise / Pilates
HEA007050 HEALTH & FITNESS / Exercise / Strength Training
HEA022000 HEALTH & FITNESS / Exercise / Stretching
HEA045000 HEALTH & FITNESS / Fertility & Infertility
HEA033000 HEALTH & FITNESS / First Aid
HEA009000 HEALTH & FITNESS / Healing
HEA028000 HEALTH & FITNESS / Health Care Issues
HEA010000 HEALTH & FITNESS / Healthy Living & Personal Hygiene
HEA035000 HEALTH & FITNESS / Hearing & Speech
HEA011000 HEALTH & FITNESS / Herbal Medications
HEA012000 HEALTH & FITNESS / Holism
HEA030000 HEALTH & FITNESS / Homeopathy
HEA056000 HEALTH & FITNESS / Indigenous Health & Healing *
HEA054000 HEALTH & FITNESS / LGBTQ+ Health
HEA049000 HEALTH & FITNESS / Longevity
HEA014000 HEALTH & FITNESS / Massage & Reflexology
HEA015000 HEALTH & FITNESS / Men's Health
HEA051000 HEALTH & FITNESS / Menopause
HEA055000 HEALTH & FITNESS / Mental Health
HEA016000 HEALTH & FITNESS / Naturopathy
HEA040000 HEALTH & FITNESS / Oral Health
HEA036000 HEALTH & FITNESS / Pain Management
HEA018000 HEALTH & FITNESS / Physical Impairments
HEA041000 HEALTH & FITNESS / Pregnancy & Childbirth
HEA020000 HEALTH & FITNESS / Reference
HEALTH & FITNESS / Reflexology see Massage & Reflexology
HEA042000 HEALTH & FITNESS / Sexuality
HEA043000 HEALTH & FITNESS / Sleep
HEA052000 HEALTH & FITNESS / Tai Chi
HEA050000 HEALTH & FITNESS / Vaccinations
HEA037000 HEALTH & FITNESS / Vision
HEA024000 HEALTH & FITNESS / Women's Health
HEA038000 HEALTH & FITNESS / Work-Related Health
HEA025000 HEALTH & FITNESS / Yoga
If your title does not have subject content, i.e. a blank book, please use the Non-Classifiable term below. Otherwise, use the Subject/General term in the closest descriptive area. NON000000 NON-CLASSIFIABLE
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