Medical and Biological Terminologies: Classical Origins
Language: English | EPUB / MOBI | ISBN-10: 0806130296 | 1998 | 320 pages | 0.6 MB / 1 MB
The 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.