The go-to textbook for medical students Designed to be as easy to understand as it is comprehensive, Kumar & Clarks Clinical Medicine is the definitive guide for medical students and doctors in training.
Revised and updated to reflect the structure of modern medical care, an all-new Acute Medicine chapter focuses on the initial, problem-based assessment of the unwell patient. Chapters on Medical Specialties explore the diagnosis and management of patients with chronic disease across the spectrum of systems-based disorders. Sections on The Practice of Medicine, Medicine and the world and Medicine Throughout Life explore medicine in its wider context, addressing the health needs of the population as well as specific patient groups.
This book has been the must-have text for medical students and doctors in training for over 35 years. The 11th edition has been fully updated and restructured to suit the needs of a contemporary audience.
PART 1 THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE 1. The art of being a doctor 2. Clinical communication 3. Medical ethics 4. Evidence-based practice 5. Human genetics 6. Immunity 7. Therapeutics and prescribing 8. Radiology
PART 2 MEDICINE AND THE WORLD 9. Public health 10. Global and planetary health
PART 3 ACUTE AND EMERGENCY MEDICINE 11. Acute medicine 12. Sepsis and the treatment of bacterial infection 13. Critical care medicine 14. Anaesthesia and perioperative medicine 15. Toxicology 16. Environmental medicine
PART 4 MEDICAL SPECIALTIES 17. Cardiology 18. Hypertension 19. Lipid and metabolic disorders 20. Respiratory medicine 21. Ear, nose, and throat 22. Gastroenterology 23. Hepatology 24. Biliary tract and pancreatic disease 25. Nutrition 26. Kidney and urinary tract disease 27. Water balance, fluids, and electrolytes 28. Neurology 29. Stroke medicine 30. General hospital psychiatry 31. Ophthalmology 32. Rheumatology 33. Bone disease 34. Endocrinology 35. Diabetes mellitus 36. Metabolic disease 37. Obesity 38. Haematology 39. Haematological oncology 40. Venous thromboembolic disease 41. Malignant disease 42. Infectious disease 43. Sexually transmitted infections 44. Human immunodeficiency virus 45. Dermatology
PART 5 MEDICINE THROUGHOUT LIFE 46. Young adult medicine 47. Sex and gender in medicine 48. Obstetric medicine 49. Medicine of the older adult 50. Palliative care and symptom control