Medical and Biological Terminologies: Classical Origins Volume 13 (Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture) - Tapa blanda

Scarborough, John

 
9780806130293: Medical and Biological Terminologies: Classical Origins Volume 13 (Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture)
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ISBN 10: 0806130296 ISBN 13: 9780806130293
Editorial: University of Oklahoma Press, 2017

Sinopsis

he often opaque and specialized vocabulary that is the language of the medical and biological sciences can be a barrier to students of the medical profession. John Scarborough, in Medical and Biological Terminologies: Classical Origins, takes a fresh approach to this problem, arguing that a knowledge of the historical reasons underlying the choices of words used in these sciences, and of how the meanings of words have changed over the millennia, is far superior to rote memorization.

Beginning with a brief discussion of why jargons are common and necessary, the author proceeds through botany and invertebrate zoology to suggest how living things are classified and related to one another, as well as to demonstrate how Greco-Latinate terms in these fields are important in biomedicine. Scarborough then considers the human body through traditional systematics (bones, nerves, muscles, the respiratory, digestive, reproductive, and vascular systems, endocrines, and the sense organs) to show how nomenclatures for parts and functions reflect the continuous efforts to define the human being.

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ÿJohn Scarborough is a Professor in the School of Pharmacy, Department of Classics, and Department of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin. He is the author of Roman Medicine, Facets of Hellenic Life, and Pharmacy?s Ancient Heritage: Theophrastus, Nicander, and Dioscorides, and the editor of Symposium on Byzantine Medicine and Folklore and Folkmedicines.

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University of Oklahoma Press
Año de publicación
2017
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Inglés
ISBN 10 
0806130296
ISBN 13 
9780806130293
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Número de páginas
316
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