Main description:

2010 BMA Book Awards - First Prize - Medicine category. "This book is comprehensive, student friendly (if still intimidating in size!) and covers such a vast breadth of knowledge. It still remains the primary 'must-have' text book of any budding doctor, or qualified one at that. This book is stunning in its breadth and in its ease of use. It still remains as the 'gold-standard' thorough guide to clinical medicine its forefathers were." (BMA Judges' quote). "Kumar and Clark's Clinical Medicine" is known, respected and admired by medical students, doctors and health professionals throughout the world. It provides in one volume a comprehensive and authoritative source of information on the management and treatment of medical problems. Clarity of writing, a hallmark of "Kumar and Clark", has been combined with a colourful and attractive presentation and a companion website to produce a complete resource of medical information. "Kumar and Clark" is now regarded as the one book that every aspiring and qualified doctor should own.

Contents:

1 Ethics (Len Doyal) and communication (A Cushing and C Mallinson) 2 Molecular cell biology and genetic disorders (RK Iles) 3 The immune system and disease (M Peakman) 4 Infectious diseases, tropical medicine and sexually transmitted infection (RG Finch, WL Irving, P Moss and J Anderson) 5 Nutrition (M Elia) 6 Gastrointestinal disease (PD Fairclough and DBA Silk) 7 Liver, biliary tract and pancreatic disease (AK Burroughs and D Westaby) 8 Haematological disease (MF Murray, KJ Pasi and J Wainscoat) 9 Malignant disease (CJ Gallagher, TA Andrew Lister, MJ Johnson and A Davies) 10 Rheumatology and bone disease (M Shipley, A Rahman, D O'Gradaigh and JE Compston) 11 Renal disease (MM Yaqoob) 12 Water, electrolytes and acid-base balance (MM Yaqoob) 13 Cardiovascular disease (AJ Camm and N Bunce) 14 Respiratory disease (AJ Frew and ST Holgate) 15 Intensive care medicine (CJ Hinds and D Watson) 16 Drug therapy and poisoning (M Rawlins and JA Vale) 17 Environmental medicine (ML Clark, CRA Clarke and A Geddes) 18 Endocrine disease (TA Howlett and MJ Levy) 19 Diabetes mellitus and other disorders of metabolism (EAM Gale and JV Anderson) 20 The special senses (M Harries, F Vaz and S Verma) 21 Neurological disease (CRA Clarke) 22 Psychological medicine (Peter D White and AW Clare) 23 Skin disease (DG Paige)