The Oxford companion to medicine
By: edited by John Walton, Paul B. Beeson, Ronald Bodley Scott ; associate editors and principal contributors, S.G. Owen, Philip Rhodes.
Contributors: Walton, John Nicholas.; Beeson, Paul B. 1908-; Scott, Ronald Bodley.; Owen, S. G.; Rhodes, Philip.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Oxford [Oxfordshire]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1524
Subjects: Medicine -- Dictionaries; Medicine -- Biography -- Dictionaries; Medicine -- handbooks
Description: Encyclopedia of medical terminology, biographical entries, and essays on "disciplines, specialties, and topics affecting the practice of medicine in the broadest sense." Intended for health professionals and interested laypersons, as well as for English-language audiences. Contents have Anglo-American emphasis. Topical entries include names of contributors and references. Cross references. Appendixes of major medical academic qualifications and of abbreviations.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. A-M; title: v. 2. N-Z.