Oxford Textbook of Medicine

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The Oxford Textbook of Medicine is the foremost international textbook of medicine. Unrivalled in its coverage of the scientific aspects and clinical practice of internal medicine and its subspecialties, it is a fixture in the offices and wards of physicians around the world , as well as being a key resource for medico-legal practitioners. 

More comprehensive, more authoritative, and more international than any other textbook; Oxford Textbook of Medicine focuses on offering both perspective and practical guidance on clinical management and prevention of disease.

Introductory sections focus on the patient experience, medical ethics and clinical decision making, outlining a philosophy which has always characterized the Oxford Textbook of Medicine. It is humane, thought-provoking, and aims to instill in readers an understanding of the role of medicine in society and the contribution it can make to the health of populations, and it does not shy away from discussion of controversial aspects of modern medicine.

As always, there is detailed coverage of all areas of internal medicine by the world's very best authors. The Oxford Textbook of Medicine seeks to embody advances in understanding and practice that have arisen through scientific research. The integration of basic science and clinical practice is unparalleled, and throughout the book the implications of research for medical practice are explained. The core clinical medicine sections offer in-depth coverage of the traditional specialty areas. The Oxford Textbook of Medicine has unsurpassed detail on infectious diseases: the most comprehensive coverage to be found in any textbook of medicine. Other sections of note include stem cells and regenerative medicine; inequalities in health; medical aspects of pollution and climate change; travel and expedition medicine; bioterrorism and forensic medicine; pain; medical disorders in pregnancy; nutrition; and psychiatry and drug related problems in general medical practice. The section on acute medicine is designed to give rapid access to information when it is needed quickly.

In response to ongoing user feedback there have been substantial changes to ensure that the Oxford Textbook of Medicine continues to meet the needs of its readers. Chapter essentials give accessible overviews of the content and a new design ensures that the textbook is easy to read and navigate. The evidence-base and references continue to be at the forefront of research.

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About the Editors

John Firth, Consultant Physician and Nephrologist, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge.

Timothy Cox, Professor of Medicine, University of Cambridge, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge.

Christopher Conlon, Consultant Physician in Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford.

Contributors:

Peter Aaby
Emma Aarons
Tom Abbott
Ade Adebajo
Raymond Agius
S. Faisal Ahmed
Shahzada K. Ahmed
Vineet Ahuja
Guruprasad P. Aithal
Sara Ajina
Tyler J. Albert
Maha Albur
Michael J. Aldape
Graeme Alexander
Michael ED Allison
Carlo Ammendolia
Kravitz Amy
Ross H Andrews
Chris Andrews
HJN Andreyev
Gregory M Anstead
Quentin M. Anstee
Clive B. Archer
Mark J. Arends
Jo Arendt
James O. Armitage
Vicente Arroyo
Daniel Aruch
Francis M Ashcroft
Caroline Ashley
S. Q. Ashraf
Paul Aveyard
Tar-Ching Aw
Jonathan Ayres
Juan Carlos Ayus
Qasim Aziz
Trevor Baglin
Michael Bagshaw
Colin Baigent
Kenneth Baker
Bettina Balint
Jay Banerjee
Adrian P. Banning
George Banting
T. M. Barber
EJ Barnes
Michael Barnes
Andrew J. Barr
Jonathan Barratt
Buddha Basnyat
Nick Bateman
David Bates
Robert P Baughman
Peter J Baxter
Hannah Beckwith
Gareth Beevers
David A Bender
Dennis Bente
Stefan Berg
Nancy Berliner
Jennifer M Best
Delia B Bethell
Kailash Bhatia
Vijaya Raj Bhatt
Joya Bhattacharyya
Paola Bianchi
RW Bilous
D Bilton
Jon Bisson
Carol M. Black
Stephen Bloom
Johannes Blum
Kristien Boelaert
Eva Boonen
Marina Botto
Ralph Bouhaidar
Henri-Jean Boulouis
Pierre Bouloux
Stephen Bourke
Ian CJW Bowler
Louise Bowles
Paul Bowness
Ray Boyapati
Sally Bradberry
Marcus Bradley
Tasanee Braithwaite
Thomas Brandt
Petter Brandtzaeg
Philippe Brasseur
J Braun
Evan M. Braunstein
James Brenton
J Bridgewater
Franck Bridoux
Charlotte K. Brierley
Alice Brockington
Max Bronstein
Gary Brook
Kevin E Brown
A Brown
Michael Brown
Vanessa Brown
Anthony FT Brown
Morris J. Brown
Reto Brun
Marco J. Bruno
Amy E. Bryant
A. D. M. Bryceson
N. C. Buchs
Camilla Buckley
Simon JA Buczacki
Enrico Bugiardini
Alan Burnett
Gilbert Burnham
Harry Burns
Eileen Burns
Aine Burns
Nigel Burrows
Rosie Burton
Andrew Bush
Kate Bushby
Gary Butler
W.F. Bynum
Simone M Cacciò
Djuna L. Cahen
P.M.A. Calverley
Jason Caplan
Jonathan R. Carapetis
Jordi Carratala Fernandez
Ross Carter
Stuart Carter
David Carty
Jaimini Cegla
Joseph Cerimele
Joshua T. Chai
Richard E Chaisson
Romanee Chaiwarith
Ben Challis
Siddharthan Chandran
Keith Channon
Roger W. Chapman
Archer Charles M.G.
V Krishna Chatterjee
Afzal Chaudhry
K Ray Chaudhuri
Wirongrong Chierakul
Patrick Chinnery
Hector Chinoy
Peter L Chiodini
Rossa W. K. Chiu
Bruno B. Chomel
Robin P. Choudhury
Julia Choy
Lydia Chwastiak
Andrew L. Clark
Andrew Clegg
John G. F. Cleland
Jacqueline Close
Gavin Clunie
S. M. Cobbe
FL Coe
Sian Coggle
J Cohen
Alasdair Coles
Jane Collier
R Collins
Juan D. Colmenero
Juliet Compston
Alastair Compston
Philip Conaghan
Christopher Conlon
Simon Conroy
John E. Cooper
Robert Cooper
Mhairi Copland
Susan J Copley
Jeremy Cordingley
Philip J Cowen
Timothy M Cox
SE Craig
Matthew Cramp
Robin AF Crawford
Daniel Creamer
Tim Crook
Paul Cullinan
Peter F. Currie
Nicola Curry
Goodarz Danaei
Christopher Danpure
Bhaskar Dasgupta
Pooja Dassan
Andrew Davenport
Justin R Davies
Simon Davies
PDO Davies
Alun Davies
Helen E. Davies
Rhys Davies
Nicholas Day
Christopher P. Day
Colin Dayan
Marc E De Broe
Kevin M De Cock
Duneesha de Fonseka
Bouke de Jong
Evelyne de Leeuw
Henry de Vries
David DeBerker
P.B. Deegan
Christopher Deighton
Christopher P Denton
Ulrich Desselberger
An DeVriese
Patrick C. D'Haese
Ashwin Dhanda
Jugdeep Dhesi
Massimiliano di Pietro
Euan Dickson
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Michael Doherty
Inderjeet S. Dokal
Jan Donck
Arjen M. Dondorp
Basil Donovan
Philip Dormitzer
Anne Dornhurst
Charles G. Drake
Will Drake
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Graham Ellis
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Monique M. Elseviers
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MA Epstein
Wendy N Erber
Ari Ercole
Edzard Ernst
Andrew P. Evan
Martin Evans
Mark Evans
Rhys D. Evans
Pamela Ewan
David W Eyre
Lynette Fairbanks
Christopher G Fairburn
Carol Fakhry 
Marie Fallon
Sonia Fargue
Adam D. Farmer
I. Sadaf Farooqi
Jeremy Farrar
Hiva Fassihi
John Feehally
Peter Fenner
Florence Fenollar
Javier Fernández
Fernando Fervenza
Sarah Fidler
Roger G Finch
Simon Finney
John D. Firth
Helen Firth
Andrew Fisher
Edward A. Fisher
Rebecca C. Fitzgerald
Michael EB Fitzpatrick
R Andres Floto
Edward D. Folland
Carole Foot
Alastair Forbes
Ewan Forrest
Rob Fowkes
Keith A. A. Fox
Stephen Franks
Keith N Frayn
Patrick French
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Patrick Gallagher
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Patrick Horner
Bala Hota
Andrew R. Houghton
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Harriet Hughes
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Om Kurmi
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D. A. Lane
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Haur Yueh Lee
Richard Lee
Philip Levin
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Su Li
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AAM Lima
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David C Linch
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Paul Little
Mark Little
William A. Littler
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Y. M. Dennis Lo
Diana N. J. Lockwood
David A Lomas
David J. Lomas
Alan Lopez
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Katharine Lowndes
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James R. Lupski
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Joseph Sung
Khuanchai Supparatpinyo
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Anthony Swerdlow
David Taggart
Kathy Taghipour
Paolo Tammaro
CT Tan
Chen Sabrina Tan
T.M. Tan
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R.V. Thakker
Nishanthi Thalayasingam
Richard Thompson
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Tran Tinh Hien
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AS Truswell
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RA Weiss
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Clive Zent

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“The bible for general medicine.”

Consultant, USA

“It gives me the confidence to teach a topic outside my speciality.”

Clinical Teaching Fellow, UK

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Consultant Cardiologist, UK

“It’s useful for both the management and the classification of symptoms.”

Resident, India

“An excellent text. Your go-to comprehensive textbook in general medicine.”

Senior Specialist Registrar, UK

“I used it as a student and a newly qualified doctor. The detail is fantastic; it prepared me so well for professional practice.”

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Staff Surgeon, USA

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Consultant, Saudi Arabia

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Reviews of the Previous Edition

"[Every doctor should], probably [read] the whole of the Oxford Textbook of Medicine."

BMJ Confidential

"... easy to read and organized intuitively, with an abundance of vivid full-color figures...The online version is superb, containing the full text as well as photographs and figures...Both the hardcover version and the online version of the Oxford Textbook of Medicine are worthy additions to any internist's library."

Journal of the American Medical Association

"One of Oxford University's great medical legends...long the close confidant and trusted aide to generations of doctors and medical students."

The American Journal of Medicine

"The latest edition benefits from internationally drawn expert contributors - they are true leaders in their retrospective fields...the book is a masterpiece and it remains relevant to the global challenge of medicine."

Hospital Medicine

"It is an invaluable source of information, well written by experts in their respective fields. It will be the first reference source I choose when questions arise as I continue to practice medicine."

Doody's

"Can we have a broader view of ourselves again as gatekeepers of the health of populations? This is an issue that is intelligently addressed. The coverage of the global burden of disease, preventive medical strategies, health policy, and costing are new and welcome additions. I found these sections to be especially thought-provoking and believe that they are valuable reading for all budding medical graduates, teachers, and researchers."

The Lancet

"The Oxford Textbook of Medicine has been regarded a sound reference book for the past twenty years, and this new, even more comprehensive, three volume edition just has to be one of the most authoritative textbooks available."

Association of Lawyers for Children

Table of contents

Section 1 – Patients and their treatment

Section 2 – Background to medicine

Section 3 – Cell biology

Section 4 – Immunological mechanisms

Section 5 – Principles of clinical oncology

Section 6 – Old age medicine

Section 7 – Pain and palliative medicine

Section 8 – Infectious diseases

Section 9 – Sexually transmitted diseases and sexual health

Section 10 – Chemical and physical injuries and environmental factors and disease

Section 11 – Nutrition

Section 12 – Metabolic disorders

Section 13 – Endocrine disorders

Section 14 – Medical disorders in pregnancy

Section 15 – Gastroenterological disorders

Section 16 – Cardiovascular disorders

Section 17 – Critical care medicine

Section 18 – Respiratory disorders

Section 19 – Rheumatological disorders

Section 20 – Skeleton disorders

Section 21 – Disorders of the kidney and urinary tract

Section 22 – Disorders of the blood

Section 23 – Disorders of the skin

Section 24 – Neurological disorders

Section 25 – Disorders of the eye

Section 26 – Psychiatry and drug related problems

Section 27 – Forensic medicine

Section 28 – Sports and exercise medicine

Section 29 – Biochemistry in medicine

Section 30 – Acute Medicine