How Clinical Physicians Write Books---A Practical Guide to Medical Illustration Compilation

Author: Huang Jian
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Publish Date: 2006-10-01
Features: This book systematically introduces knowledge about the classification, functions, structure, constituent elements, publishing methods, production processes, and copyright and intellectual property protection of medical books. It focuses on elaborating on the principles for selecting topics, the process of soliciting manuscripts, the basic structure of book manuscripts, writing techniques, key points for writing various types of manuscripts, design and drawing of illustrations and tables, and the compilation of indexes and appendices. It briefly introduces manuscript revision and proofreading, quality requirements, and manuscript submission methods. This book is suitable for medical workers and science communication creators engaged in writing medical professional books and popular science literature, or as a selective course textbook for medical college students. It can also be used as a reference for medical book editors.