Sciences of disease, health and the body in illness, including medicine, epidemiology, pharmacology, immunology, virology and microbiology. A discipline belongs here when its cited article calls it a medical or health science. It excludes genetics and molecular biology, which sit in their own group. Browse By lists these entries together so that a reader can move from one to the next and compare how each is described in the sources of the atlas.
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Medicine (Wikipedia)
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is the science and practice of caring for patients, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment and palliation of their injury or disease, while promoting their hea
Epidemiology (Wikipedia)
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is the study and analysis of the distribution (who, when, and where), patterns and determinants of health and disease conditions in a defined population, and application of this
Pharmacology (Wikipedia)
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is the science of drugs and medications, including a substance's origin, composition and interaction with biological systems
Immunology (Wikipedia)
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is a branch of biology and medicine that covers the study of immune systems in all organisms
Virology (Wikipedia)
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is the scientific study of biological viruses
Wikipedia: Microbiology
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is the scientific study of microorganisms, those being of unicellular (single-celled), multicellular (consisting of complex cells), or acellular (lacking cells)
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