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.

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