The Amazing Language of Medicine: Understanding Medical Terms and Their Backstories

ISBN-13: 9783319503271 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 238 str.

Robert B. Taylor

Opis

This book tells the intriguing and often colorful stories of the medical words we use. The origins of clinical and scientific terms can be found in Greek and Latin myths, in places such as jungles of Uganda and the islands of the Aegean Sea, in the names of medicine's giants such as Hippocrates and Osler, and in some truly unlikely sources.In this book you will learn the answers to questions such as: - What disease was named for an American space flight? - Do you know the echoic word for elephantine rumbling of the bowels?- What drug name was determined by drawing chemists' notes out of a hat?- What are surfer's eye, clam digger's itch, and hide porter's disease? This book can give you new insights into the terms we use every day in the clinic, hospital, and laboratory. Knowing a word's history assists in understanding not only what it means, but also some of the connotative subtleties of terms used in diagnosis and treatment. The Amazing Language of Medicine is intended for the enrichment of physicians, other health professionals, students, and anyone involved in clinical care and medical science.

Recenzje

"The Amazing Language of Medicine is an enjoyable and educational sojourn across the linguistic medical world. ... it would certainly give medical professionals a greater appreciation for the rich history that medicine and its eclectic language and terminology offer us." (Arek V. Melkonian and Audrey Shafer, Anesthesia & Analgesia, Vol. 126 (5), May, 2018)

"The text is generously enriched by an eclectic array of illustrations, most in color and all with helpful public domain citations. ... It is a treasury of notes and anecdotes, a companion to study and life in medicine. ... This book offers curious readers a resource for work-work balance by enriching their professional lives and deepening their sense of history, discovery and meaning." (William R. Phillips, Family Medicine, Vol. 54 (4), April, 2018)

"The Amazing Language of Medicine: Understanding Medical Terms and Their Backstories, is an etymological, philological, and historical work that entertainingly elucidates esoteric origins of selected medical vocabulary without the constraints, bulk, or boredom of traditional medical dictionaries. ... Taylor's Amazing Language of Medicine, might be just the right medicine to refresh and rejuvenate one's workaday practice while expanding one's understanding of medical history in a significant way." (Ira Rezak, The Pharos, 2017)

Spis treści

About Medical Words and Their Origins.- Medical Words with Mythological Origins.- Descriptive Medical Terms: Activities, Actions, and Appearances.- Medical Words from Various Languages.- Medical Words Linked to Places.- Medical Metaphor, Simile, and Onomatopoeia.- Eponymous and Honorary Medical Terms.- Medical Authorisms and Their Creators.- Medical Words with Intriguing Origins.- Medical Words with Confusing and Controversial Origins

O autorze

Robert B. Taylor, MD, Emeritus Professor, Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine in Portland, Oregon, and Professor, Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia. Dr. Taylor is the author and editor of more than 35 medical books. 

Robert B. Taylor, MD

Professor Emeritus

Department of Family Medicine

Oregon Health & Science University

School of Medicine

Portland, Oregon, USA

And

Professor 

Department of Family and Community Medicine

Eastern Virginia Medical School

Norfolk, Virginia, USA