Health: All Sections

Medicine

A one-stop source for medical information on nearly 1,700 common medical disorders, conditions, tests, and treatments, including high-profile diseases such as AIDS, Alzheimer's disease, cancer, and heart attack. Includes more than 600 color images.

Cancer

A unique and invaluable source of information for anyone touched by cancer. This collection of over 450 entries provides in-depth coverage of specific cancer types, diagnostic procedures, treatments, cancer side effects, and cancer drugs.

Children's Health

Newly published and covering common and rare diseases and medical conditions, immunizations and drugs, procedures, and developmental issues. It particularly addresses parents' concerns about their children's health from before birth through age 18.

Mental Disorders

A collection of approximately 400 entries providing in-depth coverage of specific disorders recognized by the American Psychiatric Association, including diagnostic procedures and techniques, therapies, and psychiatric medications.

Surgery

This collection of 465 entries provides in-depth coverage of specific surgeries, diagnostic tests, drugs, and other related entries, enhanced with more than 200 full-color images.

Genetic Disorders

An invaluable source for information regarding diseases and conditions of a genetic origin, this collection of nearly 400 entries provides in-depth coverage of disorders ranging from exceedingly rare to very well-known.

Neurological Disorders

A one-stop source for medical information that covers diseases, syndromes, drugs, treatments, therapies, and diagnostic equipment, enhanced with over 100 images.

Nursing

A collection of over 850 entries provides in-depth coverage of specific diseases and disorders, tests and procedures, equipment and tools, body systems, nursing and allied health professions, and current health issues.

Drugs and Addictive Substances

A meticulously researched volume containing the most up-to-date information on the use and abuse of drugs and other addictive substances.

Alternative Medicine

Featuring more than 750 full-length articles on alternative medical information that covers complementary therapies, herbs and remedies, and common medical diseases and conditions.

Public Health

The Encyclopedia of Public Health was designed to offer the lay reader information about important aspects of the sciences, arts, practical skills, organization, essential functions, and historical traditions of the field.

Drugs, Alcohol & Addictive Behavior

More than 450 articles representing the latest research in the field, new and updated in this second edition.