Kumar and Clark's Clinical Medicine

Now in its tenth edition, Kumar & Clark’s Clinical Medicine is fully updated and revised under a new team of editors.
Bonus online content - including self-assessment, common clinical and international cases, cardiovascular and respiratory audio material, clinical examination videos and bite-sized topic pages covering major conditions. Heavily revised throughout with smaller chapters to ease navigation, added introductions and system overviews included for most chapters.

New to this edition

Featuring new chapters covering:
o Diagnosis: the art of being a doctor - helping readers to develop a confident clinical method in interactions with patients
o Geriatric medicine, frailty and multimorbidity
o Public health
o Surgery
o Evidence-based medicine
o Sepsis
o Haematological Oncology
o Venous thromboembolic disease
o Hypertension
o Men’s health
o Obstetric medicine

Enhanced clinical skills content has been added to most chapters - helping readers tailor history-taking and examination skills to specific specialty-based contexts.

Bonus online content - including self-assessment, common clinical and international cases, cardiovascular and respiratory audio material, clinical examination videos and bite-sized topic pages covering major conditions.

Heavily revised throughout with smaller chapters to ease navigation, added introductions and system overviews included for most chapters.

Table of Contents:

1 Diagnosis: the art of being a doctor

2 Human genetics

3 Immunity

4 Evidence-based medicine

5 Ethical practice

6 Malignant disease

7 Palliative care and symptom control

8 Sepsis and the treatment of bacterial infection

9 Water, electrolytes and acid–base balance

10 Critical care medicine

11 Surgery

12 Prescribing, therapeutics and toxicology

13 Global Health

14 Public health

15 Geriatric medicine, frailty and multimorbidity

16 Haematology

17 Haematological Oncology

18 Rheumatology

19 Bone disease

20 Infectious diseases and tropical medicine

21 Endocrinology

22 Dermatology

23 Diabetes mellitus

24 Lipid and inherited metabolic disorders

25 Liaison psychiatry

26 Neurology

27 Ear, nose and throat, and eye disease

28 Respiratory disease

29 Venous thromboembolic disease

30 Cardiology

31 Hypertension

32 Gastroenterology

33 Nutrition

34 Liver disease

35 Biliary tract and pancreatic disease

36 Kidney and urinary tract disease

37 Sexually transmitted infections and HIV

38 Obstetric medicine

39 Women's health

40 Men's health

41 Environmental medicine