Interdisciplinary fields

Interdisciplinary sub-specialties of medicine are:

• Aerospace medicine deals with medical problems related to flying and space travel.
• Diving medicine (or hyperbaric medicine) is the prevention and treatment of diving-related problems.
• Forensic medicine deals with medical questions in legal context, such as determination of the time and cause of death.
• Medical informatics and medical computer science are relatively recent fields that deal with the application of computers and information technology to medicine.
• Nosology is the classification of diseases for various purposes.