Nursing Resources: Point of Need Resources

Black's Medical Dictionary has been the best-selling medical dictionary for over 100 years. It is invaluable as a home reference and for all who need clear explanation of medical terms: nurses, health care professionals and students, health service management, actuaries, lawyers and journalists. It containsover 5000 definitions and descriptions of medical terms and concepts with over1000 diagrams, drawings and colour illustrations.

Based on Part VIII of The Cambridge World History of Human Disease (CWHHD) (Cambridge University Press, 1993, reprinted 2001) this dictionary comprises a history and description of the world's major diseases of yesterday and today, from 'Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)' to 'Yellow Fever'.