The HarperCollins Illustrated Medical Dictionary - Softcover

Dox, Ida G.; Melloni, B John; Eisner, Gilbert; Melloni, June

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062736469 ISBN 13: 9780062736468

Publisher: Collins Reference, 2001

Synopsis

This is the most comprehensive and accessible medical dictionary available to the layperson. The 4th edition will include more than 28,000 terms that comprise the core of information for all the health sciences. The entries are simple and concise, and are further clarified by over 3,500 two-color illustrations which appear thoughout the book. There are also dozens of tables-including bones, muscles, nerves, and chemical symbols.

About this title

About the Author:

Ida Dox, PhD, listed in Marquis Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World, is the senior author of several reference books in the medical sciences, including Melloni's Illustrated Dictionary of Obstetrics and Gynecology (Parthenon Publishing) and Attorney's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (West Group), and is a co-author of the award-winning book Illustrated Review of Human Anatomy (J.B. Lippincott) and Melloni's Illustrated Student Atlas of Human Anatomy (Parthenon Publishing). Her many consulting services in medical communication and human anatomy have included working for the U.S. House of Representatives on the medical panel of the Select Committee on Assassinations, investigating the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. She testified with the medical panel before the congressional hearing about her involvement in the investigation. Her detailed study of the anatomical evidence and resulting illustrations are housed in the National Archives. Dr Dox was employed at Georgetown University School of Medicine and her scientific articles appear in professional journals. She resides near the National Institutes of Health and the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland, where she consults their voluminous medical literature and resources.

B. John Melloni, PhD, is the author and co-author of several books, including Anatomy and Physiology (four volumes, McGraw-Hill); Databases: A Primer for Retrieving Information by Computer (Prentice-Hall); Melloni's Illustrated Review of Human Anatomy (J.B. Lippincott) recipient of the Award of Excellence from the AMI; Melloni's Illustrated Student Atlas of Human Anatomy (Parthenon Publishing); Melloni's Illustrated Dictionary of Medical Abbreviations (Parthenon Publishing); Attorney's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (West Group), and Melloni's Illustrated Dictionary of the Musculoskeletal System (Parthenon Publishing), selected by Doody's Rating Service as one of the 250 Best Health Sciences Books of 1999. Over the years, Dr Melloni has served as a professorial lecturer in human anatomy at Georgetown University School of Medicine and was founder and chairman of the School's Department of Medical-Dental Communication. He was director of medical visual information for the American Family Physician (AFP), published by the American Academy of Family Physicians and was Editor-in-Chief of Visual Medicine, Journal of Visual Communication in the Medical and Dental Sciences. In private consulting, he was initial reviewer of grant proposals for the U.S. Department of Public Health and has served the AMA, VA, Human Research Resources Organization (HUMRRO), pharmaceutical companies (Abbott Laboratories, Chas. Pfizer, and Glaxo SmithKline), and publishers (W.B. Saunders Company, Williams & Wilkins, and HarperCollins). He has held offices in national professional organizations and received a number of awards for his contribution to illustrated books in medicine. Now retired from the National Institutes of Health, where he served as Special Expert in Biomedical Communication, he continues in his post as co-director of the Archives of Medical Visual Resources of the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

About this edition

• Publisher: Collins Reference
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0062736469
• ISBN 13: 9780062736468
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 764