The leading reference work for every surgeon, the Oxford Textbook of Surgery covers the entire specialty bringing together contributions from world-renowned professionals at the forefront of advances in the field. Illustrated in full color, it combines international experience with an extraordinary breadth of coverage featuring topics like response to injury, trauma and shock, minimally invasive surgery and surgical nutrition. This resource also emphasizes a humane approach, providing chapters on counseling bereaved relatives, pain relief and the care of the dying.

Sir Peter J. Morris
Nuffield Professor of Surgery,
University of Oxford

William C. Wood
Joseph Brow Whitehead Professor and Chairman
Department of Surgery,
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta