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The Oxford illustrated companion to medicine, edited by Stephen Lock, John Last, and George M. Dunea ; emeritus editors, John Walton, Paul B. Beeson, Jeremiah A. Barondess

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The Oxford illustrated companion to medicine, edited by Stephen Lock, John Last, and George M. Dunea ; emeritus editors, John Walton, Paul B. Beeson, Jeremiah A. Barondess

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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illustrationsmaps

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index present

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non fiction

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The Oxford illustrated companion to medicine

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bibliographydictionaries

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69646604

Responsibility statement

edited by Stephen Lock, John Last, and George M. Dunea ; emeritus editors, John Walton, Paul B. Beeson, Jeremiah A. Barondess

Summary

This reference on medicine covers the main avenues of medicine as well as medicine and art, literature, music, notable patients and folk medicine

Table Of 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

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