Oxford Textbook Of Medicine (Oxford Medical Publications) Vol2 Only Hardcover 1 Jun 1987

This second edition has been updated and expanded with over 150 new chapters and 400 internationally known contributors. Emphasis is placed on the basic pathophysiology of disease as well as on the clinical and therapeutic aspects. In addition, related specialties which have particular importance in general medicine, such as obstetrics, psychiatry, geriatrics, and terminal care are dealt with. Every effort has been made to keep the book of value not only to physicians practising in the developed countries, but in all parts of the world. For this reason there is a very extensive coverage of infectious and tropical diseases and throughout the book the global aspects of disease are emphasized. By using this approach it is hoped that the book will give the student or specialist in the developed countries a balanced account of internal medicine as it presents itself in other parts of the world, as well as a more conventional description of the subject as it is usually presented in Western textbooks of medicine.