Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Dictionaries & Terminology

You don't need to master Spanish to treat your Spanish-speaking patients with confidence and expertise

With no prior knowledge of Spanish, and this book at your fingertips, you can confidently conduct patient medical history interviews, perform physical examinations, and give medical instructions to Spanish-speaking patients.

Carefully constructed to elicit one-word "yes" or "no" answers, Medical Spanish empowers you to obtain, and give, the information you need, without struggling to understand an unfamiliar language or risking errors due to...

There's no easier, faster, or more practical way to learn the really tough subjects

Medical Terminology Demystified covers all the basic terms of disease and injury, abnormal anatomy and physiology, surgical techniques, drugs, and other therapies--in the context of real, practical health issues. This self-teaching guide comes complete with key points, background information, quizzes at the end of each chapter, and even a final exam.

As a sociological specialty, medical sociology has a distinct history and literature spanning more than four decades. Since its inception in the years following World War II, medical sociology has attracted significant funds for research, provided extensive employment opportunities within and outside the academy, and produced an increasing number of professional publications. The Medical Sociology Section is the largest specialty represented in both the British and German Sociological Associations and is the second largest among American sociologists. Unlike other, more theoretically...

The dictionary contains more than 28,000 main entries and many subentries: (a) medical terms used outside the medical community, including colloquial usage; (b) technical medical terms in current use in clinical practice...

Implementing Change in Health Systems brings fresh thinking and evidence to the continuing debate about market reforms of health care and other public services. The book examines the development and implementation of national cost-containment programs and health system reorganizations in the UK, Sweden and the Netherlands -- countries that have been leaders in health system reform.

The book provides a new framework for analyzing public policy implementation and system change, synthesizing diverse streams of academic research and thinking. It explores the processes...

The basic language of biology and medicine seems strange, and it should--it is essentially a foreign language, filled with words of Latin and Greek origin, diseases that are identified named after the physician who discovered it rather than the cause or effect, and is otherwise made up of abbreviations and other obscure terminology and information that only a trained physician or researcher would know. Yet many professionals are required to have at least a rudimentary knowledge of biomedical terminology and information, and frequently they are at a loss in understanding even the simplest...

The proven concept of the first edition has been continued in the second edition

Including many new entries and completely revised

A trilingual dictionary with more than 4300 entries
Offering an indispensable vocabulary of basic medical terminology
For physicians, medical students and everybody connected with the medical profession
Contains important expressions and phrases, essential for professional success in foreign countries
Enabling communication with patients of different nationalities as well as medical report writing in foreign languages
Acknowledges...

Das Worterbuch bietet einen kompakten Zugang zu den englischen bzw. deutschen Ubersetzungen der wichtigsten Begriffe in den bildgebenden Verfahren. Alle modernen Verfahren sind abgedeckt. Beispielsatze erleichtern das Verstandnis von Wortwahl und korrekter Idiomatik.

Unverzichtbar fur alle, die englischsprachige Arbeiten sicher verstehen oder verfassen mochten.