| Book Name | Black's Medical Dictionary |
| Author | Dr Harvey Marcovitch |
| Publish Year | 2005 |
| Publisher | A & C Black Publishers Limited |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Medical Terms |
| ISBN | 0–7136–6146–1 |
| Download | Link |
Black's Medical Dictionary Review:
Black’s Medical Dictionary first appeared in 1906. That new century was to see health care in the United Kingdom evolve from a largely personal, paternalistic consultation between doctor and patient, based more on medical tradition than medical science, to a complex, science-based, team-oriented and managed service. Even so, the core of medical practice has survived: the face-to-face consultation between doctor and patient. But the nature of this core activity has been irreversibly altered by a shift in the ‘balance of power’ between the participants as patients became better informed about their health, illnesses and possible treatments. A significant catalyst in the emergence of the informed patient has been the media, including publications like this dictionary, the contents of which have during its 41 editions reflected these changes in medicine.
One modest constant in this sea of change, however, has been the objective of Black’s Medical Dictionary. When launching the first edition, the editor, Edinburgh physician John D. Comrie, declared his aim as being to produce ‘a work which would occupy a position somewhere between that of a Technical Dictionary of Medicine and one intended merely for the domestic treatment of common ailments . . . [giving] information in simple language upon medical subjects of importance and general interest’. That initial mission statement underpins this first edition of the 21st century.
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