Health and Care Reference Books

You can find reference books such as those below at Bedford Central Library. Other libraries have smaller selections

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• Directories of health help organisations, including  Voluntary agencies, Charities digest and the Contact A Family directory: specific conditions and rare disorders and  UK family support groups
  
• Professional directories, including the Medical directory and the Institute of Healthcare Management's Health and social care yearbook
• Guides to medicines, including the British Medical Association's New guide to medicines and drugs, which is aimed at the general reader, and the specialist books British national formulary and the British pharmacopoeia
• Books about medical conditions, such as Black's medical dictionary, the British Medical Association's Complete family health guide and A-Z family medical encyclopedia and the very technical and detailed Oxford textbook of medicine
• Reference works on health and safety and pollution including Pollution handbook; the three-volume specialist Sax's dangerous properties of industrial materials; and 'Croner's health and safety at work', a frequently updated loose-leaf work which is also at Dunstable Library.