Research Guides: Nursing: Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

A Dictionary of Nursing
Coverage of advances in the field includes general nursing, statistics, common scales and indexes, religion and spirituality, and commonly used abbreviations
Oxford Companion to Medicine
An authoritative guide to the field of medicine and its specialities, with articles on topics ranging from abortion to zombification. All the major medical and nursing specialities are covered.
Encyclopedia of Public Health
Aimed at the nonspecialist reader interested in health and medicinal issues, the Encyclopedia examines a broad range of topics such as environmental health, drug abuse, epidemiology, nutrition, demographics and diseases
Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
Covers therapies, conditions/diseases, herbs/plants, and people. Identifies numerous types of alternative medicine, including reflexology, acupressure, acupuncture, chelation therapy, and more.

Credo, Gale, and Oxford offer reference collections that let you cross-search many dictionaries and encyclopedias at once!

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Dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc. from a variety of sources.
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Online reference works from a variety of publishers.
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Reference books by Oxford University Press, including the Oxford Digital Reference Shelf.