Portal:Medicine
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Top level portal for Class R: Medicine
General medicine covers areas common to medicine as a whole, such as its history, philosophy and ethics. It also covers practical aspects such as medical educations, technology and personnel.
Child portals: British Medical Journal • The Lancet • Provincial Medical and Surgical Association
Public aspects of medicine covers subjects such as medicine and the state, public health, hygiene, medical centres, forensics and toxicology.
Child portal: Health • International Sanitary Conferences
Internal medicine is the medical specialty dealing with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of adult diseases. It is known as "general medicine" in Commonwealth countries. This portal includes works on specific diseases.
Child portal: American Association for Respiratory Care
Surgery is the medical specialty that involves physical intervention on tissues; often either cutting into them or closing an existing wound.
Ophthalmology is the medical specialty dealing with the eye.
Otorhinolaryngology is the medical specialty dealing with the head and neck, otherwise known as "ear, nose and throat".
Gynecology and obstetrics are the medical specialties dealing with the female reproductive system and with children during and immediately after pregnancy.
Child portal: Abortion • Planned Parenthood • Society for Constructive Birth Control and Racial Progress
Pediatrics is the medical specialty that covers the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases in children.
Dentistry is the medical specialty dealing with teeth.
Dermatology is the medical specialty dealing with skin.
Therapeutics covers all remedies of health problems apart from pharmaceutical. This ranges from diet, to acupuncture, to physical therapy, to chemotherapy.
Pharmacology is the branch of medicine and biology concerned with the study of drugs.
Pharmacy and materia medica covers medical substances and their therapeutic properties. This includes formulation, pharmacopoeias, and dispensaries.
Nursing is a profession focused on care for people, with the aim of improving or maintaining their health.
Botanic, Thomsonian and eclectic medicine are a variety of related systems of medicine that use herbal and physical therapies to cure disease.
Homeopathy is a system of alternative medicine based on the doctrine that like cures like, according to which a substance that causes the symptoms of a disease in healthy people will cure similar symptoms in sick people.
Other systems of medicine covers subjects such as ayurveda, total chinese medicine (TCM), chiropractic, osteopathy, magnetotherapy, phrenology and radiesthesia.
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