Current Medicine: No. 2 (CMPE)

by David H . Lawson (Editor)

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  1990

  $11.98

  This book is divided into three sections. In the first, 11 authors have produced topical reviews on areas of their expertise. Their reviews range from preventative medicine in the form of an essay on the use of vaccines old and new, to treatments for major clinical problems such as diabetic pregnancy, osteoporsis and cardiac dysrhythmias. Young patients are not forgotten and there are essays on asthma and wheezing, on the aetiology and management of acute renal failure and on poisoning with household products. In the second section of the book there are five essays by distinguished clinicians who give their personal views on the best management of a major clinical problem. This section was given a personal focus deliberately in the hope that authors would go beyond the perspective of the standard textbooks and address some of the more controversial issues which frequently face clinicians. The third section is an historical one, in which two physicians have been asked to write from the basis of their personal knowledge and perspective, about one of the greatest 20th century Scottish physicians - Sir Derrick Dunlop.