Oxford Handbook of Medical Sciences

"As for its earlier editions, the aim of this Handbook remains the elucidation of the fun-damental scientific principles that underpin modern medical science in a conveniently-sized handbook format, covering core concepts without oversimplifying their treatment. While keeping the same overall format in this third edition, we have updated chapters to reflect recent advances, and included many new and full-colour figures to illustrate the text. In addition, updated and frequent cross-referencing to the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine, 10e, the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Specialties, 10e and the Oxford Handbook of Practical Drug Therapy, 2e helps to highlight the clinical significance of specific information. Although the Handbook will be of obvious utility to medical stu-dents, we hope that its content will also serve as a strong foundation for students study-ing the biomedical sciences. We hope that you will find this third edition of Handbook at least as useful as previous readers have found the first two"--