The Oxford medical companion / edited by John Walton (Lord Walton of Detchant), Jeremiah A. Barondess, and Stephen Lock
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- 1965939
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- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994
- xxi, 1038 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0192623559
- Full contents:
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- 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.
- Notes:
- Abridged and updated ed. of: Oxford companion to medicine.
- Subject:
- Medicine -- Encyclopedias
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- Also Titled:
- Medical companion
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