J. Hunter – Clinical Dermatology (3rd edition)

Автор: J. Hunter
Название книги: Clinical Dermatology
Формат: PDF
Жанр: Медицина
Страницы: 377
Качество: Изначально компьютерное, E-book

This best selling text has been completely revised and refreshed in the fourth edition. The authors aim to enthuse family doctors (for whom they are primarily writing) to enjoy the challenge of diagnosing and treating skin conditions. Clinical Dermatology contains over 500 high quality pictures and diagrams matched with many colourful phrases to illustrate and entertain as it teaches. It has established a reputation as a ‘way of learning’ and as a cogent overview of the subject for the aspiring specialist. Readers are guided through the maze that too often lies between the presenting skin complaint and its final diagnosis and treatment. The authors have created an easily read text with enough detail to clarify the subject but not enough to obscure it.

Five years is a long time in modern medicine, and
we feel that the moment has come for Clinical
Dermatology to move into its third edition. As before,
every chapter has been updated extensively, but our
aim is still the sameato create an easily read text that
will help family doctors to get to grips with a subject
many still find confusing, despite the increasingly
stodgy sets of guidelines that now land regularly on
their desks.
We have selected the best elements of these guidelines
for our new sections on treatment, which are therefore
much more ‘evidence based’. However, if we had
to include only treatments based on flawless evidence,
we would have to leave out too many old favourites
that have stood the test of time, but have still not been
evaluated properly. Next time perhaps.
We have also reacted to a survey of our readers,
which showed that most of them spend little time on
the chapters devoted only to the structure, function
and immunology of the skin. We have pruned these
back, but have put more physiology and pathology
into the relevant clinical chapters where it should be
of more use to a doctor struggling through a busy
surgery.
Other changes too have been prompted by the helpful
comments of our readers. They include a new chapter
on regional dermatology, dealing with the special
problems of areas such as the mouth and the genitalia;
the replacement of several unloved clinical photographs;
the insertion of a list of suggestions for further
reading at the end of each chapter; more discussion
of the ageing skin and of quality of life issues; and
more emphasis on the types of surgery that can easily
be undertaken by family doctors. More power to their
elbows.
Finally, many important recent advances have entered
every chapter on their own merits. Dermatoscopy, the
expanding role of lasers, ‘sun sense’, and the drug treatment
of AIDS are good examples of these. In addition,
some new subjects, such as cutaneous anthrax, have
been forced into the new edition by outside events.
We welcome you to our third edition.