The Textbook of Medicine provides a comprehensive account of clinical medicine incorporating the language and ideas of modern medical science. The book discusses clinical medicine in the context of the growth in our understanding of the mechanisms of disease. The book is pitched at the level of the junior doctor in training while at the same time it will appeal to all medical students who desire more than a fairly synoptic account of clinical medicine as found in books like Kumar: Clinical Medicine and Davidson's Principles & Practice of Medicine. The necessity to keep fully up-to-date applies to trainee and practising physicians who are all required to maintain a satisfactory knowledge of all areas of general medicine. This book provides the level of information that this market requires.

The website (new for this edition) includes additional materials - MCQs, illustrations and case studies - that are not in the book.

Contents

1 Therapeutics and toxicology
P A Routledge
2 Acute physical and environmental disorders
J Moxham, R L Souhami
3 The genetic basis of disease
R M Winter
4 Immunological disorders
D M Edgar, H F Sewell
5 Nutrition in clinical medicine
M E J Lean
6 Cancer medicine
R L Souhami
7 Ageing and disease
P W Overstall
8 Psychological medicine
J Holmes
9 Infectious, tropical and parasitic disease
M Wansbrough-Jones, S G Wright
10 Skin disease
C Kennedy, R A C Graham-Brown
11 Aids and genitourinary disease
I G Williams
12 Cardiovascular disease
J M Walker, L B Tan
13 Respiratory disease
J Moxham, J F Costello
14 Critical care medicine
J Goldstone, G Bellingan, M Smith
15 Gastrointestinal disease
R G Long, B T Cooper
16 Liver and biliary tract disease
J O'Grady
17 Endocrine disease
A P Weetman
18 Metabolic bone disease and mineral metabolism
J Cunningham, J P Monson
19 Diabetes mellitus and lipid metabolism
J Wilding, G Williams
20 Renal and urinary disease
J Cunningham
21 Salt and water homeostasis and acid-base balance
J P Monson
22 Musculoskeletal and connective tissue disease
B L Hazleman
23 Haematological disorders
D C Linch
24 Neurological disease
J W Scadding, J Gibbs