Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 18th Edition

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McGraw Hill Professional, 2011 M07 22 - 2800 páginas

The most widely read textbook in the history of medicine – made more essential to practice and education by an unmatched array of multi-media content

Through six decades, no resource has matched the encyclopedic scope, esteemed scholarship, and scientific rigor of Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, both as a textbook and as a clinical reference. It remains the most universally respected textbook in all of medical publishing and the pinnacle of current medical knowledge.

The eighteenth edition of Harrison’s features expanded and more in-depth coverage of key issues in clinical medicine, pathophysiology, and medical education. The acclaimed Harrison’s DVD has been updated to include 53 chapters not found in the text; 14 all-new how-to videos commissioned specifically for Harrison’s; PowerPoint presentations on essential topics in medical education; and hundreds of bonus illustrations.

  • Presented in two volumes
  • NEW text design greatly enhances readability
  • NEW chapters on cutting-edge topics in clinical medicine
  • Expanded focus on global considerations of health and disease

Editor-in-Chief: Dan Longo, MD (Boston, MA) is Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School.

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About the Editors The Harrisons Editors represent the best of the very best of academic and research medicine. The new editor-in-chief is Dan Longo, MD. Dr Longo has been a Harrison's editor for three editions, and is Scientific Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Dr. Longo is a cancer specialist. Anthny Fauci is Director of the National Institutes for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and recipient of the 2007 Lasker Prize for Medicine along with many other awards too numerous to mention. He is the chief federal official responsible for policy in AIDS and HIV research and public health as well as bioterrorism response. Dennis Kasper MD is Director of the world remowned Channing Lab at Harvard University, and also a high official on national infectious diseases policy. Stephen Hauser MD is Chair of Neurology at UCSF and editor of Archives of Neurology.

Anthony S. Fauci, MDChief, Laboratory of ImmunoregulationDirector, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious DiseasesNational Institutes of Health. In 2008, Dr. Fauci was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Nation's highest civil award.

Dennis L. Kasper, MD, MA (Hon)William Ellery Channing Professor of MedicineProfessor of Microbiology and Molecular GeneticsExecutive Dean for Academic ProgramsHarvard Medical SchoolDirector, Channing LaboratoryDepartment of MedicineBrigham and Women’s Hospital

Stephen L. Hauser, MDChairman and Betty Anker Fife ProfessorDepartment of NeurologyUniversity of California, San Francisco

Información bibliográfica

TítuloHarrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 18th Edition
AutoresDan Longo, Anthony Fauci, Dennis Kasper, Stephen Hauser, J. Jameson, Joseph Loscalzo
Edición18
EditorMcGraw Hill Professional, 2011
ISBN0071748903, 9780071748902
Largo2800 páginas
  
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