Summary:
While being both entertaining and enjoyable, this new edition of Basic Pathology is a straightforward introduction to pathology and the mechanisms of disease. It puts pathology into its historical, scientific and clinical context for all medical, dental and nursing students and other health professionals.



Basic Pathology has been brought fully up-to-date in this new edition, and once again covers four main themes: What is a Disease, Defence Against Disease, Circulatory Disorders, and Disorders of Cell Growth; highlighting key mechanisms and their interplay in producing symptoms, signs and disease. With new cartoons to illustrate key points and make those study hours pass by with ease, the book also retains the much-praised clinical scenarios, historical anecdotes and key facts boxes.

• Explains pathology in an accessible way with supporting cartoons, case studies, and information on key pathology figures in history
• Includes 'key facts' and 'dictionary boxes' for many topics
• Full-colour page layout with high-quality pathology and microscopy images
• New coverage of recent advances in immunology, genetics and neoplasia and stronger emphasis on radiology, especially concentrating on pathological and radiological correlations
• Information on the latest special techniques and more fascinating biographies
• Companion website http://www.hodderplus.com/basicpathology/ featuring images from the book and further reading and resources
• Complemented by the new companion volume Pathology in Clinical Practice: 50 Case Studies by members of the same author team

Table of Contents:
PART 1 INTRODUCTION - WHAT IS A DISEASE?
Prologue: What is a disease?
Chapter 1: Causes and mechanisms - general principles
Chapter 2: What causes disease?


PART 2 DEFENCE AGAINST DISEASE
Introduction: The role of epidemiology in disease
Chapter 3: The body’s response to infection
Chapter 4: The acute inflammatory response
Chapter 5: Chronic and granulomatous inflammation, healing and repair
Chapter 6: The immune defence against infection


PART 3 CIRCULATORY DISORDERS
Introduction: Features of circulatory disorders
Chapter 7: Vascular occlusion and thrombosis
Chapter 8: Atherosclerosis and hypertension
Chapter 9: Circulatory failure


PART 4 CELL GROWTH AND ITS DISORDERS
Introduction: A brief history of cancer
Chapter 10: Benign growth disorders
Chapter 11: Malignant neoplasms
Chapter 12: What causes cancer?
Chapter 13: Molecular genetics of cancer
Chapter 14: The behaviour of tumours
Chapter 15: The clinical effects of tumours
Epilogue
Index

About the Author(s):
Sunil R Lakhani BSc MBBS MD FRCPath FRCPA, Professor and Head, Molecular and Cellular Pathology, School of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Mayne Medical School, Brisbane, Australia


Susan A Dilly BSc MBBS FRCPath, Professor and Institute Director, Institute of Health Sciences Education, Barts and The London, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, UK
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Caroline J Finlayson MBBS FRCPath, Honorary Senior Lecturer and Consultant in Histopathology, St George’s Hospital Medical School, London, UK

Readership:
Core: For medical students who need to know the basics about pathology. Will also appeal to undergraduates in nursing, dentistry, human biology and some paramedical specialties, plus courses such as p