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John Firth, Consultant Physician and Nephrologist, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge, Christopher Conlon, Consultant Physician in Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Professor of Infectious Diseases, University of Oxford, Oxford, Timothy Cox, Professor of Medicine, University of Cambridge, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge

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The Oxford Textbook of Medicine provides all that any doctor needs to know to practise top-level internal medicine. It gives comprehensive coverage of the epidemiology, aetiology, and mechanisms of disease, as well as clear, unambiguous coverage of diagnosis, practical management and prevention of the entire spectrum of medical disorders.

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Section 1 - Patients and their treatment
1.1: Timothy M. Cox: An older patient's story
1.2: A younger patient's experience of healthcare
1.3: Rosamund Snow: The patient in control
1.4: Des Spence: What do patients need?
1.5: Mike Parker, Suleman Mehrunisha: Medical ethics
1.6: Tim Peto, Philippa Peto: Principles of clinical decision making
Section 2 - Background to medicine
2.1: William F. Bynum: Science in medicine: when, how, and what
2.2: Nesse Randolph: Evolutionary medicine
2.3: Vos Theo, Alan Lopez, and Christopher Murray: The global burden of disease
2.4: Colin Baigent, R. Collins, R. Peto, R. Gray, and S. Parish: Large-scale randomized evidence: trials and meta-analyses of trials
2.5: Afzal Chaudhry: Bioinformatics
2.6: Kevin O'Shaughnessy: Clinical Pharmacology
2.7: John Isaacs, Nishanthi Thalayasingam: Biological Therapies in rheumatic diseases
2.8: Youyou Tu, Fulong Liao, and Jiang Tingliang: Traditional Medicine exemplified by Traditional Chinese Medicine
2.9: Emil Kakkis, Max Bronstein: Engaging patients in therapeutic development
2.10: Paul Newton: Medicine quality, physicians and patients
2.11: David Mant: Preventive medicine
2.12: Nick Wald: Medical screening
2.13: Evelyne de Leeuw: Health promotion
2.14: Harry Burns: Deprivation and health
2.15: Allyson M. Pollock and David Price: How much should rich country governments spend on healthcare?
2.16: Luis G. Sambo, Jorge Simões, and Maria do Rosario O. Martins: Financing healthcare in low- income developing countries: A challenge for equity in health
2.17: Jeremy Farrar: Research in the developed world
2.18: Malegapuru (William) Makgoba, Steve Tollman: Fostering medical and health research in resource-constrained countries
2.19: Michael Rawlins: Regulation versus innovation in medicine
2.20: Amartya Sen: Human disasters
2.21: Amy Kravitz: Humanitarian medicine
2.22: Edzard Ernst: Complementary and Alternative medicine
Section 3 - Cell biology
3.1: George Banting, Paul Luzio: The cell
3.2: James Lupski, Pawel Stankiewicz: The genomic basis of medicine
3.3: Iain B. McInnes: Cytokines
3.4: Francis M. Ashcroft, PauloTammaro: Ion channels and disease
3.5: Rodrigo Andres Floto: Intracellular signalling
3.6: Mark Arends, Chris Gregory: Apoptosis in health and disease
3.7: Siddharthan Chandran, Alexis Joannides, and Ludovic Vallier: Stem cells and regenerative medicine
3.8: Herman Waldmann, Gregory Winter: The evolution of therapeutic antibodies
3.9: Dennis Lo, Rossa Chiu: Circulating DNA for molecular diagnostics
Section 4 - Immunological mechanisms
4.1: Paul Bowness: The innate immune system
4.2: Mar