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Monday, November 5, 2007

Interdisciplinary fields

Interdisciplinary sub-specialties of medicine are:
Aerospace medicine deals with medical problems related to flying and space travel.
Bioethics is a field of study which concerns the relationship between biology, science, medicine and ethics, philosophy and theology.
Biomedical Engineering is a field dealing with the application of engineering principles to medical practice.
Clinical pharmacology is concerned with how systems of therapeutics interact with patients.
Conservation medicine studies the relationship between human and animal health, and environmental conditions. Also known as ecological medicine, environmental medicine, or medical geology.
Disaster medicine deals with medical aspects of emergency preparedness, disaster mitigation and management.
Diving medicine (or hyperbaric medicine) is the prevention and treatment of diving-related problems.
Evolutionary medicine is a perspective on medicine derived through applying evolutionary theory.
Forensic medicine deals with medical questions in legal context, such as determination of the time and cause of death.
Keraunomedicine is the medical study of lightning casualties.
Medical humanities includes the humanities (literature, philosophy, ethics, history and religion), social science (anthropology, cultural studies, psychology, sociology), and the arts (literature, theater, film, and visual arts) and their application to medical education and practice.
Medical informatics, medical computer science, medical information and eHealth are relatively recent fields that deal with the application of computers and information technology to medicine.
Naturopathic medicine is concerned with primary care, natural remedies, patient education and disease prevention.
Nosology is the classification of diseases for various purposes.
Occupational Medicine deals with medical problems related to work and the working environment.
Osteopathic medicine claims that much disease results from problems with bones and joints.
Pharmacogenomics is a form of individualized medicine.
Sports medicine deals with the treatment and preventive care of athletes, amateur and professional. The team includes specialty physicians and surgeons, athletic trainers, physical therapists, coaches, other personnel, and, of course, the athlete.
Therapeutics is the field, more commonly referenced in earlier periods of history, of the various remedies that can be used to treat disease and promote health [1].
Travel medicine or emporiatrics deals with health problems of international travelers or travelers across highly different environments.

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