Davidson’s Principles and Practice of Medicine International Edition (23rd Edition)

Description

More than two million medical students, doctors and other health professionals around the globe have owned a copy of Davidson’s Principles and Practice of Medicine since it was first published. Now in its 23rd Edition, this textbook describes the pathophysiology and clinical features of the most frequently encountered conditions in the major specialties of adult medicine and explains how to recognise, investigate, diagnose and manage them. Taking its origins from Sir Stanley Davidson’s much-admired lecture notes, Davidson’s has endured because it keeps pace with how modern medicine is taught and provides a wealth of information in an easy-to-read, concise and beautifully illustrated format. This book will serve readers everywhere as a core text that integrates medical science with clinical medicine, conveying key knowledge and practical advice in a highly accessible and readable format. The new second section on emergency and critical care medicine introduces a significantly expanded and comprehensive account of the approaches to dealing with acute medical and critical illness. Two new chapters on maternal and adolescent/transition medicine complement the one on ageing and disease by addressing problems encountered at key stages of patients’ lives. A new chapter on medical ophthalmology has been included as a direct response to readers’ requests. The opening chapter has been completely rewritten with a new focus on the important principles of clinical decision-making or clinical reasoning. A new internal text design for this 23 rd Edition provides a simpler and clearer presentation of the various categories of text boxes.

Table of Contents

1. Fundamentals of medicine
2. Clinical decision making
3. Clinical therapeutics and good prescribing
4. Clinical genetics
5. Clinical immunology
6. Population health and epidemiology
7. Principles of infectious disease
8. Emergency and critical care medicine
9. Poisoning
10. Envenomation
11. Environmental medicine
12. Acute medicine and critical illness
13. Clinical medicine
14. Infectious diseases
15. HIV infection and AIDS
16. Sexually transmitted infections
17. Clinical biochemistry and metabolic medicine
18. Nephrology and urology
19. Cardiology
20. Respiratory medicine
21. Endocrinology
22. Nutritional factors in disease
23. Diabetes mellitus
24. Gastroenterology
25. Hepatology
26. Haematology and transfusion medicine
27. Rheumatology and bone disease
28. Neurology
29. Stroke medicine
30. Medical ophthalmology
31. Medical psychiatry
32. Dermatology
33. Maternal medicine
34. Adolescent and transition medicine
35. Ageing and disease
36. Oncology
37. Pain and palliative care
38. Laboratory reference ranges

Author Biography

Stuart Ralston

Arthritis Research UK Professor of Rheumatology, University of Edinburgh; Honorary Consultant Rheumatologist, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK

Ian Penman

Consultant Gastroenterologist, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh; Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh, UK

Mark Strachan

Consultant Endocrinologist, Metabolic Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh; Honorary Professor, University of Edinburgh, UK