This book is designed for students requiring a working knowledge of English medical terminology. The worksheets can be used either for self-study or in the classroom

Over 16,000 terms from British and international medical practice, covering topics such as surgery, general practice, hospitals, clinics, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry and other specialists

This comprehensive dictionary clearly defines over 15,000 words and expressions used in all aspects of medicine in simple English

This book considers the major dilemas arising from the funding, organisatio and delivery of health care in the UK in the 1990s. \'Health care\' is given the widest possible definition, stepping beyond the health service to include social, community and educational initiatives, in an analysis of the constraints on and opportunities for improving the nation\'s health

English for Medicine is a skills-based course designed specifically for students of medicine who are about to enter English-medium tertiary level studies. It provides carefully graded practice and progression in the key academic skills that all students need, such as listening to lecture and speaking in seminars. It also equips students with the specialist language they need to participate successfully within a medicine faculty. Extensive listening exercises come from medical lectures, and all reading texts are taken from the same field of study. There is also a focus throughout on the key medical vocabulary that students will need.

The aim of this book is to develop the English language skills required by medical personnel for successful communication in their wirk or study.

The aim of this book is to develop the English language skills required by medical personnel for successful communication in their wirk or study.

This book provides invaluable assistance to overseas doctors who must familiarise themselves with the vocabulary and language used in doctor-patient relationships

This book is designed to help doctors and senior medical students to communicate in English in the profession, e.g. talking to colleagues at conferences, on the telephone, during study visits, reading medical articles and writing reports. The reading and listening texts reflect the kinds of scenarios encountered by the medical professional, providing a context for the language study tasks as well as providing comprehension exercises

Oxford English for Careers is a new, up-to-date course where you learn what you need to know for a career in nursing. Learn the English you need to do the job; practise language in real work situations; learn the right vocabulary for speaking to patients and colleagues.

Oxford English for Careers is a new, up-to-date course where you learn what you need to know for a career in nursing. Learn the English you need to do the job; practise language in real work situations; learn the right vocabulary for speaking to patients and colleagues.

Oxford English for Careers is a new, up-to-date course where you learn what you need to know for a career in nursing. Learn the English you need to do the job; practise language in real work situations; learn specialist vocabulary on every page.

Includes over 10,240 up-to-date entries written by medical and nursing specialists.

This book is organised into eight sections and covers hundreds of key words and expressions in areas such as body systems, patient history and examination, medical conditions, and drugs and treatment

A comprehensive and up-to-date guide to medical practice and terminology

Penny Marshall tells the story of how the battle for birth has been waged between women, doctors and midwives over the last two centuries. This war has shaped the maternity services in the UK today. Penny talks to midwives, obstetricians, mothers and policy makers about the battles that have been fought to give women the maternity care they want.

To be a good doctor you have to be a compassionate chameleon, a shape shifter - a shaman. Even if your adaptation to your patients' world happens at an unconscious level you should always work within their system of ideas, never against it...' So writes Cecil Helman after 27 years as a family practitioner in the suburbs of North London interlaced with training and research as a medical anthropologist, comparing a wide variety of health systems. This unique combination of frontline health worker and detached academic informs the many stories that make up this fascinating book.

Early research in the 1990s suggested that babies born with a lower birth weight were at increased risk of developing diabetes in later life. This work has now moved on to show that the weight you put on after birth is more crucial. How effective is physical exercise on the rate of developing diabetes, and just how much exercise do you need to do in order to protect yourself? Richard Hannaford follows the population studies that have found the answers to these and other questions about the emergence of this condition.

Adding fluoride to the water supply has always been a polarised debate. Some think it will prevent tooth decay while others say its safety has not been proven. Its not a new argument, 50 years of fluoridation studies are available but recently public health officials of both Scotland and England have revisited the issue. The difference is that Scotland has decided against increasing the amount of fluoride in the water, while in England the Strategic Health Authorities can, after consultation, request that Water Companies add fluoride to an agreed level. Richard Hannaford asks whether science can ever solve this controversy.

One person in a hundred suffers from schizophrenia and among some groups, especially migrants; the incidence appears to be even higher. Schizophrenia still carries a stigma and many sufferers refuse to accept that they have the condition.Schizophrenia may include a range of symptoms like delusions and hallucinations. But doctors are still at a loss to explain what actually causes the disease.