Main description:

While being both entertaining and enjoyable, this new edition of Basic Pathology is a straightforward introduction to pathology and the mechanisms of disease. It puts pathology into its historical, scientific and clinical context for all medical, dental and nursing students and other health professionals. Basic Pathology has been brought fully up-to-date in this new edition, and once again covers four main themes: What is a Disease, Defence Against Disease, Circulatory Disorders, and Disorders of Cell Growth; highlighting key mechanisms and their interplay in producing symptoms, signs and disease. With new cartoons to illustrate key points and make those study hours pass by with ease, the book also retains the much-praised clinical scenarios, historical anecdotes and key facts boxes.

Contents:

PART 1 INTRODUCTION - WHAT IS A DISEASE? Prologue: What is a disease? Chapter 1: Causes and mechanisms - general principles Chapter 2: What causes disease? PART 2 DEFENCE AGAINST DISEASE Introduction: The role of epidemiology in disease Chapter 3: The bodyaaC--(t)s response to infection Chapter 4: The acute inflammatory response Chapter 5: Chronic and granulomatous inflammation, healing and repair Chapter 6: The immune defence against infection PART 3 CIRCULATORY DISORDERS Introduction: Features of circulatory disorders Chapter 7: Vascular occlusion and thrombosis Chapter 8: Atherosclerosis and hypertension Chapter 9: Circulatory failure PART 4 CELL GROWTH AND ITS DISORDERS Introduction: A brief history of cancer Chapter 10: Benign growth disorders Chapter 11: Malignant neoplasms Chapter 12: What causes cancer? Chapter 13: Molecular genetics of cancer Chapter 14: The behaviour of tumours Chapter 15: The clinical effects of tumours Epilogue Index