Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine

Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine

17th Ed. ©2008 McGraw Hill Publishers Inc.
Authors/Editors: Dennis L. Kasper, MD, Anthony S. Fauci, MD, Dan L. Longo, MD, Eugene Braunwald, MD, Stephen L. Hauser, MD, J. Larry Jameson, MD, PhD, Joseph Loscalzo, MD, PhD
ISBN: 0071599916 / 9780071599917
Subjects: Internal Medicine
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Overview

Harrison's has defined internal medicine for millions of clinicians and students. The new Seventeenth Edition retains Harrison's acclaimed balance of pathobiology, cardinal signs and manifestations of disease, and best approaches to patient management, yet has been massively updated to give you an innovative array of bold new features and content. If ever there was one must-have resource for clinicians and students – this is it!

Features:

  • Bonus information from the companion DVD is included in the online version. The info features: 37 new “e-chapters”; over 500 brand-new radiological, laboratory, and clinical images, including complete atlases; state-of-the-art video clips; an Image Bank of nearly all the illustrations contained in the parent text, and much more
  • Expanded, modernized illustration program with more than 800 brand-new, additional illustrations-a 60% increase over the previous edition
  • Dozens of brand new chapters on vital topics in medical education and clinical practice: - Global Issues in Medicine: Patient Safety and Health Quality; Health Disparities: Atlas of EKGs; Clinical Management of Obesity: Atlas of Hematology: Atlases of Chest, Neurological, and Cardiovascular Radiology, and much more! Also included a complete new Section on biological foundations and emerging clinical applications of regenerative medicine!
  • Brand new, reader-friendly text design optimizes the full-color format
  • An expanded, innovative focus on global health
  • NEW Global Advisory Board comprised of 11 prominent medical experts from Asia, India, Europe, and South America
  • Revision of the popular On Line Learning Center, which offers more skill-sharpening self-assessment questions and answers, plus additional case studies for helping you apply Harrison's content to the daily care of patients

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Authors

Dennis L. Kasper, MD
William Ellery Channing Professor of Medicine, Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School; Director, Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston

Anthony S. Fauci, MD
Chief, Laboratory of Immunoregulation; Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda

Dan L. Longo, MD
Scientific Director, National Institute on Aging,
National Institutes of Health,
Bethesda and Baltimore

Eugene Braunwald, MD
Distinguished Hersey Professor of Medicine,
Harvard Medical School; Chairman, TIMI Study Group, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston

Stephen L. Hauser, MD
Robert A. Fishman Distinguished Professor and Chairman,
Department of Neurology,
University of California San Francisco, San Francisco

J. Larry Jameson, MD, PhD
Irving S. Cutter Professor and Chairman,
Department of Medicine,
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine;
Physician-in-Chief, Northwestern
Memorial Hospital, Chicago

Joseph Loscalzo, MD, PhD
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA.

Quoted
"This continues to be the best textbook in internal medicine."

-- Paula Graf, MD (St. Luke's Hospital)


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