| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (some color), maps |
| Contents |
Abortion -- Absinthe -- Accidents, medical -- AIDS -- Acupuncture -- Africa, medicine in -- Age and ageing -- Alchemy -- Allergy -- Alzheimer's disease -- Animals as carriers of disease -- Apollo -- Art and medicine -- Astrology -- Asylums -- Ayurvedic medicine -- Battle neurosis -- Benefits of medicine -- Bible, medicine and the -- Bills of mortality -- Bioethics -- BSE -- Brain-stem death -- Cardiology -- Chernobyl -- Child health -- Children, experimentation on -- Chinese medicine -- Chiropractic -- Computers -- Contraception -- Creutzfeld Jacob Disease -- Cults and quackeries -- Dance -- DNA -- Diet and disease -- Disasters -- Dwarfism -- Dreams -- Eating disorders -- Epidemiology -- Eponyms -- Esthetic surgery -- Euthanasia -- Evidence-based medicine -- Famine -- Flying doctors -- Foundling hospitals -- Gene therapy -- Genealogy -- Giants -- Gout -- Hara-kiri -- Health care systems -- Herbal remedies -- History -- Hospitals -- Hypnosis -- Jehovah's witnesses -- Jekyll, Dr. -- King's Evil -- Kuru -- Landmines -- Language -- Leprosy -- Managed care -- Media violence -- Midwifery -- Misadventures -- Munchausen, Baron -- Music -- Natural childbirth -- Near-death experiences -- Nobel Prizes -- Noise -- Nursing -- Old Moore's Almanac -- Opera -- Origin of the species -- Pain -- Paramedics -- Patients, notable -- Penicillin -- Peruvian bark -- Pharmacy -- Philately -- Plague -- Poetry -- Porphyria and Royal madness -- Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Quarantine -- Quotations -- Red Cross -- Red Crescent -- Religion -- Rejuvenation -- Saints -- Scientology -- Self-experimentation -- Sleep -- Smog -- Sport -- Sudden Infant Death Syndrome -- Suicide -- Tattooing -- Thalidomide -- Tobacco -- Transplantation -- Tuskegee -- Vitamins -- War -- Water -- Women -- Zombification |
| Summary |
This reference on medicine covers the main avenues of medicine as well as medicine and art, literature, music, notable patients and folk medicine |
| Notes |
Current online version: 2012 |
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Print title: Oxford illustrated companion to medicine |
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Revised edition of: The Oxford medical companion, 1994 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Medicine -- Biography -- Dictionaries.
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Medicine -- Dictionaries.
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| Genre/Form |
Dictionaries.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Dunea, George.
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Last, John M., 1926-
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Lock, Stephen.
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| ISBN |
0191727458 |
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9780191727450 |
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(print) |
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(print) |
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