| Description |
xxi, 1038 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Series |
Medical companion
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Oxford companion to medicine
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Aerospace medicine -- AIDS and HIV -- Alchemy -- Allergy -- Anaesthesia -- Anatomy -- Anti-infective drugs -- Armed forces of the USA: medical services -- Art and medicine -- Arteries, veins, their diseases and vascular surgery -- Biochemistry -- Brain (stem) death -- Cardiology -- Cardiothoracic surgery -- Cell and cell biology -- Chemistry, clinical -- Chernobyl -- Chest medicine -- Clinical investigation -- Clinical trials of treatment -- Colposcopy -- Communication between doctors and patients -- Complementary (alternative) medicine -- Computers in medicine -- Cremation -- Death, dying and the hospice movement -- Defence medical services (UK) -- Dentistry in the UK and USA -- Dermatology -- Diabetes mellitus -- Diagnosis -- Doctors as patients -- Doctors as truants to literature -- Doctors in literature -- Doctors in other walks of life (medical truants) -- Endocrinology -- Environment and medicine: I. Physical effects -- Environment and medicine: II. Poverty and health - a global perspective -- Epidemiology -- Ethical issues in modern health care -- Experimental method -- Forensic medicine -- Foundations and charities in Canada -- Foundations and charities supporting medical care in the UK -- Foundations, charities and grant-making bodies supporting medical research in the UK (with a brief note on Europe) -- Foundations in the USA: their role in medicine and health -- Fraud and misconduct in medical research -- Gastroenterology -- General Medical Council -- Genetics and medical practice -- Geriatric medicine (geriatrics) -- Government and medicine in the UK -- Government and medicine in the USA -- Haematology and blood transfusion -- Health care economics -- Health care systems and their financing -- Historiography of medicine -- History of medicine -- Hospitals in the UK -- Hospitals in the USA: their development and organisation: historical perspective -- Hypertension -- Illustration and photography in medicine -- Immunology -- Inborn errors of metabolism -- Infectious diseases -- Insurance, life and other forms, medical aspects -- Intensive care -- Internal medicine in the UK -- Internal medicine in the USA -- International medical associations and organisations -- Keyhole surgery -- Language, cognition and higher cerebral function -- Law and medicine (medical jurisprudence) in the UK -- Law and medicine (medical jurisprudence) in the USA -- Magnetic resonance imaging -- Maternal mortality -- Medical books and libraries -- Medical (clinical) audit -- Medical colleges, faculties, societies, major hospitals and institutes of the UK -- Medical colleges, faculties, societies, major hospitals and institutes of the USA -- Medical cults and quackery -- Medical education, postgraduate and continuing -- Medical education, undergraduate -- Medical journals -- Medical practice -- Medical sceptics -- Medicine and stamp collecting -- Medicine and the media -- Medicine in Africa -- Medicine in Australia -- Medicine in France -- Medicine in Germany, Austria and Switzerland -- Medicine in Greece -- Medicine in Italy -- Medicine in Japan -- Medicine in New Zealand -- Medicine in Poland -- Medicine in Scandinavia -- Medicine in Southeast Asia -- Medicine in Spanish-speaking countries -- Medicine in the Arab world -- Medicine in the EC -- Medicine in the former Soviet Union -- Medicine in the Indian sub-continent -- Microbiology, medical -- Missionaries, medical, mission hospitals, and missionary societies -- Molecular biology and medicine -- Museums, medical -- Music and medicine -- Nephrology -- Neurology -- Neuromuscular disease -- Neuroscience -- Neurosurgery, current practice -- No fault compensation -- Nuclear medicine -- Nursing in North America -- Nursing in the UK -- Nutrition -- Obstetrics and gynaecology -- Occupational medicine -- Oncology: cancer, neoplastic disease, malignant disease -- Ophthalmology -- Orthopaedics -- Osteoporosis -- Otorhinolaryngology (the ear, nose and throat or ENT) -- Paediatrics -- Pain -- Palaeopathology -- Pathology -- Patients, notable (illnesses of the famous) -- Pharmaceutical industry -- Pharmacology, clinical pharmacology and therapeutics -- Pharmacy and pharmacists (in the UK) -- Physics, medical (and some contributions of electronics and engineering to medicine) -- Physiology -- Plastic and maxillofacial surgery -- Poisoning -- Primary medical care (general medical practice or family medicine) -- Prison medicine -- Professions allied to medicine -- Psychiatry -- Psychology in relation to medicine -- Public health in the UK -- Public health in the USA -- Radiation, ionizing: its biological effects -- Radiology -- Radiotherapy -- Red Cross, International, and the British Red Cross Society -- Rehabilitation -- Research institues, medical -- Rheumatology -- St. John, Order of; Knights Hospitalier; St. John Ambulance -- Screening -- Self-experimentation -- Self-help organisations (in the UK) -- Sexuality and medicine -- Sexually transmitted disease -- Sleep -- Smoking and health -- Snake bite -- Social work and medicine -- Sociology in relation to medicine -- Sport and medicine -- Statistics -- Substance abuse -- Suicide -- Surgery, general -- Transplantation of human organs -- Trauma -- Tropical medicine -- Ultrasound in medicine -- Urology -- Veterinary medicine in relation to human medicine -- Women in medicine |
| Analysis |
Medicine |
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Medicine |
| Notes |
Abridged and updated ed. of: Oxford companion to medicine |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Medicine -- Encyclopedias.
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Medicine -- Dictionaries.
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Dictionaries, Medical as Topic.
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Medicine.
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Dictionaries, Medical as Topic.
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| Genre/Form |
Encyclopedias.
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| Author |
Barondess, Jeremiah A., 1924-
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Lock, Stephen.
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Walton, John N. (John Nicholas), 1922-2016.
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Oxford University Press.
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| LC no. |
94030681 |
| ISBN |
0192623559 |
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