Black's Medical Dictionary (Reference S.)

by Gordon Macpherson (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  2002

  $3.25

  This medical dictionary gives over 5000 definitions and descriptions of medical terms and concepts accompanied by appendices on important subjects such as the National Service, health economics, complementary and alternative medicine, common medical tests and an address list of support and professional organisations. There are the following new entries on the subject of apoptosis, attention deficit disorder, autism, children's physical and mental health, cognitive behaviour therapy, environmental health ethics, general practice, nursing, occupational health, pregnancy and labour, prostheses, research fraud, suicide, transfusion.

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  Hardcover
  2005

  $3.25

  The forty-first edition gives over 5000 definitions and descriptions of medical terms and concepts accompanied by appendices on important subjects such as Health Economics, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Common Medical Tests and an address list of support and professional organisations. All material has been checked and updated with new and substantially revised entries on: abortion, anaesthetics, assisted conception, breast screening, chronic fatigue syndrome (ME), clinical guidelines, clinical trials, evidence-based medicine, general practice, Gulf War syndrome, menopause, psychosomatic medicine.