Understanding Medical Research: The Studies That Shaped Medicine

Editor: Goodfellow, John A.
Publication Year: 2012
Publisher: Wiley

Single-User Purchase Price: $50.95
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ISBN: 978-0-47-065448-4
Category: Health & Medicine - Medicine
Image Count: 22
Book Status: Available
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Understanding Medical Research: The Studies That Shaped Medicine is an exciting new title that offers a unique and valuable approach to understanding historically influential studies in important areas of medicine.

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Table of Contents

  • Contributors
  • Preface
  • Foreword, Sir Liam Donaldson
  • Acknowledgements
  • Chapter 1 Population Health, Douglas Noble; Felix Greaves; Sir Liam Donaldson
  • Chapter 2 Patient Safety, Felix Greaves; Douglas Noble; Sir Liam Donaldson
  • Chapter 3 Heart Failure, Martin R. Cowie; Kaushik Guha
  • Chapter 4 Acute Coronary Syndrome (NSTEMI), Wei Yao Lim; Colin Berry
  • Chapter 5 Lipids, Dyslipidaemia and Cardiovascular Disease, Gilbert R. Thompson
  • Chapter 6 Atrial Fibrillation, Kunihiro Nishida; Stanley Nattel
  • Chapter 7 Asthma, Tak H. Lee; Leonard Siew
  • Chapter 8 Cystic Fibrosis, Andrew Bush
  • Chapter 9 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Paul A. Ford; Peter J. Barnes
  • Chapter 10 Pneumonia John M. Wrightson; Eleanor K. Mishra; Robert J.O. Davies
  • Chapter 11 Stroke, Philip M.W. Bath; Nikola Sprigg
  • Chapter 12 Parkinson's Disease, Edward J. Newman; Donald G. Grosset
  • Chapter 13 Epilepsy, Fergus J. Rugg-Gunn
  • Chapter 14 Motor Neuron Disease, Martin R. Turner; Kevin Talbot
  • Chapter 15 Migraine, Mark W. Weatherall
  • Chapter 16 Multiple Sclerosis, Alasdair Coles; Alastair Compston
  • Chapter 17 The Autoimmune Basis for Guillain-Barré Syndrome, John A. Goodfellow; Hugh J. Willison
  • Chapter 18 Helicobacter pylori, Peptic Ulcers and Gastric Cancer, Anahita Dua; Emad M. El-Omar
  • Chapter 19 Acute Liver Failure, James O'Beirne; Andrew K. Burroughs
  • Chapter 20 Haemostasis and Thrombosis, Charles Percy; Raza Alikhan
  • Chapter 21 The Inherited Disorders of Haemoglobin, Sir David Weatherall
  • Chapter 22 Diabetes Therapy and the Prevention of Vascular Damage, Philip Home
  • Chapter 23 Rheumatoid Arthritis, Jonathan C.W. Edwards; Maria J. Leandro
  • Chapter 24 Osteoarthritis, Kirsten White; Alexander S. Nicholls; Anushka Soni; Nigel Arden
  • Chapter 25 Systemic Vasculitis, Joanna Robson; Ravi Suppiah; Raashid Luqmani
  • Chapter 26 Polycystic Kidney Disease, Qi Qian
  • Chapter 27 Glomerular Disease and the Nephrotic Syndrome, Jenny Papakrivopoulou; Robert Unwin
  • Chapter 28 Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, Tica Pichulik; Alison Simmons
  • Chapter 29 Transplantation, Dame Elizabeth Simpson
  • Chapter 30 Autoimmunity, Jonathan C.W. Edwards; Geraldine Cambridge
  • Chapter 31 The Biochemistry of Depression, Philip J. Cowen
  • Chapter 32 Schizophrenia and the Dopamine Hypothesis, Mandy Johnstone; Dame Eve C. Johnstone
  • Chapter 33 Alzheimer's Disease, Gordon Wilcock; Alistair Burns