Nursing, Health Care, & Medicine: Find Books / eBooks

‘“No home should be without one” certainly applies to this splendid medical dictionary’ – Journal of the Institute of Health Education

The new edition of this bestselling and trusted dictionary has been fully revised to take account of recent developments in nursing practice and related fields.

This new eighth edition has been fully revised and updated to reflect recent progress in the fields of biology, biophysics, and biochemistry, with particular expansion to the areas of ecology, cell biology, and plant and animal development.

This dictionary covers terms used in public health science and practice, including areas such as communicable disease control, epidemiology, genetics, nutrition, toxicology, social work, sanitation and public health engineering, environmental sciences, and administration.

This dictionary offers jargon-free entries on food, nutrition, diet, and health that clearly explain even the most technical of nutritional terms.