Medical Editing: A Guide to Learning the Craft and Building Your Career (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)

From an award-winning instructor of medical editing, this is the first guide designed to introduce the field to prospective and early-career medical editors. Medical editing is a thriving and wide-ranging specialty within the editorial profession.Its practitioners occupy a unique ecosystem that involves its own style manuals and the ability to work with highly technical medical terminology and issues, and its work helps ensure that health practitioners, researchers, and the public receive sound, understandable medical information.Today, opportunities abound for medical editors-who come from many backgrounds and work in many settings, such as medical journals, medical institutions, and the freelance realm. Written by an experienced and award-winning editor, Medical Editing: A Guide to Learning the Craft and Building Your Career provides a thorough introduction to the profession.At levels ranging from the punctuation mark to the publication, Barbara Gastel provides accessible and concret