Full Description
This book is the perfect companion reference for everyone working in medicine or related fields, and who is interested in what is done in each of the branches of medicine, medical institutions, how medicine relates to art and literature, and how medicine is practised around the world. There are major entries on each of the branches of medicine - what they encompass, something of their historical background, variation in their international practice, and recent advances - as well as shorter entries that explain concisely what is meant by a comprehensive selection of medical terms. The origins, purpose, and structure of many international medical bodies and institutions are also described. There are insights into the lives and achievements of many fascinating and famous historical and contemporary medical personalities and numerous articles depict the often close links between medicine and the arts - fine art, music, and literature. The clear layout and comprehensive cross-referencing ensure that information can be found quickly and easily. Anyone interested in medicine will find this book hard to put down.
This book is intended for all those interested in medical topics, especially all health-care professionals.
Contents
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
