Basic Pathology An Introduction to the Mechanisms of Disease,9780340810019

Basic Pathology An Introduction to the Mechanisms of Disease

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Edition: 3rd
ISBN13: 9780340810019
ISBN10: 0340810017
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-12-25
Publisher(s): Hodder Education Publishers
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Summary

This best-selling textbook provides a lively introduction to pathology for students of medicine, dentistry, nursing and other health professions. The book explores the basic mechanisms that a student must understand in order to make sense of clinical medicine, and in addition, covers allaspects of the science underlying disease processes, integrating the topics covered within a clinical setting. Entirely updated the third edition retains the much-praised clinical scenarios, historical anecdotes, key points boxes and revision notes from the previous edition . Restructured into fivemajor sections, the text highlights the key mechanisms and their interplay in producing symptoms, signs and disease.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Acknowledgements viii
PART 1 Introduction -- What is a Disease?
1(70)
Prologue: Definition of disease
2(5)
Causes and mechanisms -- general principles
7(21)
What is a cause?
28(43)
PART 2 Defence Against Disease
71(70)
Introduction: The role of epidemiology in disease
72(3)
The body's response to disease
75(11)
The inflammatory response
86(36)
The immune response
122(19)
PART 3 Circulatory Disorders
141(68)
Introduction
142(3)
Vascular occlusion and thrombosis
145(20)
Atherosclerosis and hypertension
165(20)
Circulatory failure
185(24)
PART 4 Disorders of Cell Growth
209(65)
Introduction
210(3)
Benign growth disorders
213(8)
Malignant neoplasms
221(11)
What causes cancer?
232(10)
Molecular genetics of cancer
242(17)
The behaviour of tumours
259(5)
The clinical effects of tumours
264(10)
Epilogue 274(1)
Appendix 275(4)
Theme maps 279(7)
Index 286

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