Table of Contents

Section 1 - Patients and their treatment
1.1: Timothy M. Cox: An older patient's story
1.2: A younger patient's experience of healthcare
1.3: Rosamund Snow: The patient in control
1.4: Des Spence: What do patients need?
1.5: Mike Parker, Suleman Mehrunisha: Medical ethics
1.6: Tim Peto, Philippa Peto: Principles of clinical decision making
Section 2 - Background to medicine
2.1: William F. Bynum: Science in medicine: when, how, and what
2.2: Nesse Randolph: Evolutionary medicine
2.3: Vos Theo, Alan Lopez, and Christopher Murray: The global burden of disease
2.4: Colin Baigent, R. Collins, R. Peto, R. Gray, and S. Parish: Large-scale randomized evidence: trials and meta-analyses of trials
2.5: Afzal Chaudhry: Bioinformatics
2.6: Kevin O'Shaughnessy: Clinical Pharmacology
2.7: John Isaacs, Nishanthi Thalayasingam: Biological Therapies in rheumatic diseases
2.8: Youyou Tu, Fulong Liao, and Jiang Tingliang: Traditional Medicine exemplified by Traditional Chinese Medicine
2.9: Emil Kakkis, Max Bronstein: Engaging patients in therapeutic development
2.10: Paul Newton: Medicine quality, physicians and patients
2.11: David Mant: Preventive medicine
2.12: Nick Wald: Medical screening
2.13: Evelyne de Leeuw: Health promotion
2.14: Harry Burns: Deprivation and health
2.15: Allyson M. Pollock and David Price: How much should rich country governments spend on healthcare?
2.16: Luis G. Sambo, Jorge Simões, and Maria do Rosario O. Martins: Financing healthcare in low- income developing countries: A challenge for equity in health
2.17: Jeremy Farrar: Research in the developed world
2.18: Malegapuru (William) Makgoba, Steve Tollman: Fostering medical and health research in resource-constrained countries
2.19: Michael Rawlins: Regulation versus innovation in medicine
2.20: Amartya Sen: Human disasters
2.21: Amy Kravitz: Humanitarian medicine
2.22: Edzard Ernst: Complementary and Alternative medicine
Section 3 - Cell biology
3.1: George Banting, Paul Luzio: The cell
3.2: James Lupski, Pawel Stankiewicz: The genomic basis of medicine
3.3: Iain B. McInnes: Cytokines
3.4: Francis M. Ashcroft, PauloTammaro: Ion channels and disease
3.5: Rodrigo Andres Floto: Intracellular signalling
3.6: Mark Arends, Chris Gregory: Apoptosis in health and disease
3.7: Siddharthan Chandran, Alexis Joannides, and Ludovic Vallier: Stem cells and regenerative medicine
3.8: Herman Waldmann, Gregory Winter: The evolution of therapeutic antibodies
3.9: Dennis Lo, Rossa Chiu: Circulating DNA for molecular diagnostics
Section 4 - Immunological mechanisms
4.1: Paul Bowness: The innate immune system
4.2: Marina Botto, Matthew Pickering: The complement system
4.3: Paul Klenerman, Constantino Lopez: Adapative immunity
4.4: Dinakantha Kumararatne, Sophie Hambleton, Sara Marshall: Immunodeficiency
4.5: Pamela Ewan: Allergy
4.6: Antony Rosen: Autoimmunity
4.7: Kathryn J. Wood, Elizabeth Wallin: Principles of transplantation immunology
Section 5 - Principles of clinical oncology
5.1: Anthony Swerdlow, Richard Peto: Epidemiology of cancer
5.2: James Brenton: The nature and development of cancer: cancer mutations and their implications
5.3: Rosalind Eeles: The genetics of inherited cancers
5.4: Charles Drake: Cancer immunity and immunotherapy
5.5: Martin Gore, Tim Eisen: Clinical features and management
5.6: Rajesh Jena, Peter Harper: Systemic treatment and radiotherapy
5.7: Tim Crook: Medical management of breast cancer
Section 6 - Old age medicine
6.1: Neil Pendleton, Claire Steves: Ageing and clinical medicine
6.2: Andrew Clegg, Harnish Patel: Frailty and sarcopenia
6.3: Steve Iliffe: Optimising well being into old age
6.4: Simon Controy, Jay Banerjee: Older people and acute medical illness
6.5: Graham Ellis, Alasdair MacLullich, and Rowan Harwood: Age atuning general hospital services
6.6: Jugdeep Dhesi, Judith Partridge, and Jacqueline Close: Supporting older peoples' care in other specialist services
6.7: Miles Witham, Denis O'Mahony, and Jacob George: Drugs and prescribing
6.8: Tash Masud, Fiona Kearney: Falls, Faints and Fragility Fractures
6.9: Susie Orme, Danielle Harari: Bladder and bowels
6.10: John Hindle: Neurodegenerative disorders in older people
6.11: Eileen Burns, Claire Scampion: Promotion of healthy living, dignity and quality of life
Section 7 - Pain & Pallative Care
7.1: Susan Salt: Introduction to palliative care
7.2: Marie Fallon: Pain management
7.3: Regina McQuillan: Management of other symptoms
7.4: Suzanne Kite, Adam Hurlow: Care of the dying person
Section 8 - Infectious diseases
8.1.1: Duncan Maskell, James Wood: Biology of pathogenic microorganisms
8.1.2: Duncan Young, Peter Watkinson: Clinical features and general management of patients with severe infections
8.2.1: Christopher Ellis: Clinical approach to patient with suspected infection
8.2.2: Steven Vanderschueren: Fever of unknown origin
8.2.3: Ian C.J.W. Bowler, Matthew Scarborough: Nosocomial infection
8.2.4: Jonathan Cohen, Elham Khatamzas: Infection in the immunocompromised host
8.2.5: Alisdair P. MacGowan: Antimicrobial chemotherapy
8.3.1: David Goldblatt, Mary Ramsay: Immunization
8.4.1: Chris P. Conlon, Susanna Dunachie: Travel & expedition medicine
8.5.1: Malik Peiris: Respiratory tract viruses
8.5.2: Patrick Sissons: Herpesviruses (excluding Epstein Barr virus)
8.5.3: Alan B. Rickinson: Epstein-Barr virus
8.5.4: Geoffrey L. Smith: Poxviruses
8.5.5: B.K. Rima: Mumps: epidemic parotitis
8.5.6: H.C. Whittle, Peter Aaby: Measles
8.5.7: C.T. Tan: Nipah and Hendra virus encephalitides
8.5.8: Phillip Minor, Ulrich Desselberger: Enterovirus infections
8.5.9: Philip Dormitzer, Ulrich Desselberger: Virus infections causing diarrhoea and vomiting
8.5.10: M.J. Warrell, David A. Warrell: Rhabdoviruses: rabies and rabies-related lyssaviruses
8.5.11: M.J. Warrell, David A. Warrell: Colorado tick fever & other arthropod-borne reoviruses
8.5.12: Ann Powers: Alphaviruses
8.5.13: Pat Tookey, Jennifer M. Best: Rubella
8.5.14: Nikos Vasilakis, Shannan Rossi: Flaviviruses (excepting Dengue)
8.5.15: Bridget A. Wills, Leo Yee-Sin: Dengue
8.5.16: James W. LeDuc, Dennis Bente: Bunyaviridae
8.5.17: Jan ter Meulen: Arenaviruses
8.5.18: Jan ter Meulen: Filoviruses
8.5.19: Raphael P. Viscidi, Chen Sabrina Tan: Papovaviruses and polyomaviruses
8.5.20: Kevin E. Brown: Parvovirus B19
8.5.21: Matthew Cramp, Ashwin Dhanda: Hepatitis viruses (excluding hepatitis C virus)
8.5.22: Paul Klenerman, Jane Collier: Hepatitis C virus
8.5.23: Sarah Fidler, Tim Peto, Philip Goulder, and Christopher Conlon: HIV and AIDS
8.5.24: Kevin M. De Cock, Alison D. Grant: HIV in low- and middle-income countries
8.5.25: K (Tine) Verdonck, Eduardo Gotuzzo: HTLV-1, HTLV-2 and associated diseases
8.5.26: Robin A. Weiss: Viruses and cancer
8.5.27: Emma Aarons, David Warrell: Orf and Milker s Nodule
8.5.28: David Warrell and Christopher Conlon: Molluscum contagiosum
8.5.29: Harriet Hughes, Susanna Froude: Newly discovered viruses
8.6.1: Delia B. Bethell, Tran Tinh Hien: Diphtheria
8.6.2: Dennis L. Stevens, Sarah E. Hobdey: Streptococci and enterococci
8.6.3: Anthony J. Scott: Pneumococcal infections
8.6.4: Kyle Popovich, Robert Weinstein, and Bala Hota: Staphylococci
8.6.5: Petter Brandtzaeg: Meningococcal infections
8.6.6: Magnus Unemo, Jackie Sherrard: Neisseria gonorrhoeae
8.6.7: Pennington Hugh: Enterobacteria and bacterial food-poisoning
8.6.8: Sharon Peacock, Gavin Koh: Pseudomonas aeruginosa
8.6.9: Chris Parry, Buddha Basnyat: Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers
8.6.10: Nicole Stoesser: Intracellular klebsiella infections (donovanosis and rhinoscleroma)
8.6.11: Anilrudh A. Venugopal, David W. Hecht: Anaerobic bacteria
8.6.12: A.A.M. Lima, Dick Guerrant: Cholera
8.6.13: Esther Robinson: Haemophilus influenzae
8.6.14: Nigel O'Farrell: Haemophilus ducreyi & chancroid
8.6.15: Cameron Grant: Bordetella infection
8.6.16: Sharon Peacock,: Melioidosis & glanders
8.6.17: Michael B. Prentice: Plague: Yersinia pestis
8.6.18: Michael B. Prentice: Other Yersinia infections - yersiniosis
8.6.19: Marina S. Morgan: Pasteurella
8.6.20: Petra C.F. Oyston: Francisella tularensis infection
8.6.21: A. Brown: Anthrax
8.6.22: Juan D. Colmenero, Pilar Morata: Brucellosis
8.6.23: Louisa Thwaites, Lam Minh Yen: Tetanus
8.6.24: Mark Wilcox, David Eyre: Clostridium difficile
8.6.25: D.L. Stevens, Michael J. Aldape, and Amy E. Bryant: Botulism, gas gangrene, and clostridial gastrointestinal infections
8.6.26: Richard E. Chaisson, Jean B. Nachega: Tuberculosis
8.6.27: Jakko van Ingen, P.D.O. Davies: Disease caused by environmental mycobacteria
8.6.28: Diana N.J. Lockwood: Leprosy (Hansen's disease)
8.6.29: W.M. Meyers, Francoise Portaels: Buruli ulcer: Mycobacterium ulcerans infection
8.6.30: Klaus P. Schaal: Actinomycosis
8.6.31: Roderick J. Hay: Nocardiosis
8.6.32: Andrew Woodhouse: Rat bite fevers (Streptobacillus moniliformis and Spirillum minus infection)
8.6.33: John Nowakowski: Lyme borreliosis
8.6.34: David A. Warrell: Relapsing fevers
8.6.35: Nick Day: Leptospirosis
8.6.36: Michael Marks, David Mabey, and Oriol Mitjà: Nonvenereal endemic treponematoses: yaws, endemic syphilis (bejel), and pinta
8.6.37: Basil Donovan, Phillip Read: Syphilis
8.6.38: Herbert Hof: Listeriosis
8.6.39: Jordi Carratala Fernandez, Diego Viasus: Legionelleosis and legionnaires' disease
8.6.40: Philippe Parola, Didier Raoult, and Karolina Griffiths: Rickettsiosis
8.6.41: Daniel Paris, Nicholas P. J. Day: Scrub typhus
8.6.42: Thomas J. Marrie: Coxiella burnetti infections (Q fever)
8.6.43: Bruno B. Chomel, Henri-Jean Boulouis, Matthew J. Stuckey, Jean-Marc Rolain: Bartonelloses, excluding B bacilliformis
8.6.44: A. Llanos-Cuentas, Ciro Maguina-Vargas: Bartonella bacilliformis infection
8.6.45: Patrick Horner, David Mabey, David Taylor-Robinson, Magnus Unemo: Chlamydial infections
8.6.46: Jorgen Jensen, David Taylor-Robinson: Mycoplasmas
8.6.47: John Paul: A checklist of bacteria associated with infection in humans
8.7.1: Roderick J. Hay: Fungal infections
8.7.2: William G. Powderly,: Cryptococcosis
8.7.3: Gregory M. Anstead, John R. Graybill: Coccidioidomycosis
8.7.4: M. A. Shikanai-Yasuda: Paracoccidioidomycosis
8.7.5: Robert F. Miller, Christopher Eades: Pneumocystis jiroveci
8.7.6: Khuanchai Supparatpinyo, Romanee Chaiwarith: Taralomyces (Penicillium) marneffei infection
8.7.7: Louis Weiss: Microsporidiosis
8.8.1: Richard Knight: Amoebic infections
8.8.2: Arjen Dondorp: Malaria
8.8.3: Philippe Brasseur: Babesiosis
8.8.4: Eskild Petersen, Oliver Liesenfeld: Toxoplasmosis
8.8.5: Simone M. Cacciò: Cryptosporidium and cryptosporidiosis
8.8.6: Paul Kelly: Cyclospora and cyclosporiasis
8.8.7: Louis Weiss: Cystoisospora
8.8.8: John Cooper: Sarcocystosis (sarcosporidiosis)
8.8.9: Lars Eckmann: Giardiasis and balantidiasis
8.8.10: Richard Knight: Blastocystis infection
8.8.11: Reto Brun, Johannes Blum: Human African trypanosomiasis
8.8.12: Michael Miles: Chagas disease
8.8.13: Diana Lockwood: Leishmaniasis
8.8.14: Jane R. Schwebke: Trichomoniasis
8.9.1: G. M. Burnham: Cutaneous filariasis
8.9.2: Richard Knight: Lymphatic filariasis
8.9.3: Richard Knight: Guinea worm disease (dracunculiasis)
8.9.4: Michael Brown: Strongyloidiasis, hookworm & other gut strongyloid nematodes
8.9.5: Peter Chiodini, David Grove: Gut and tissue nematode infections acquired by ingestion
8.9.6: Richard Knight: Angiostrongylus
8.10.1: Richard Knight: Cestodes (tapeworms)
8.10.2: Pedro Moro, Hector H. Garcia, and Armando E. Gonzalez: Cystic hydatid disease (Echinococcus granulosus)
8.10.3: Hector H. Garcia, R. H. Gilman: Cysticercosis
8.11.1: David Dunne, Birgitte Vennervald: Schistosomiasis
8.11.2: Ross Andrews, Paiboon Sithithaworn, Trevor Petney, and Khuntikeo Narong: Liver fluke infections
8.11.3: Udomsak Silachamroon, Sirivan Vanijanonta: Lung flukes (paragonimiasis)
8.11.4: Alastair McGregor: Intestinal trematode infections
8.12: John Paul: Non-venomous arthropods
8.13: D. A. Warrell: Pentostomiasis (porocephalosis, linguatulosis/ linguatuliasis or tongue worm infection)
Section 9 - Sexually transmitted diseases
9.1: David Mabey, Anita Vas-Falcao: Epidemiology of sexually transmitted diseases
9.2: Catherine H. Mercer, Annie M. Johnson: Sexual behaviour
9.3: Gary Brook, Jackie Sherrard, and Graziano Luzzi: Sexual history and examination
9.4: Paul Nyirjesy: Vaginal discharge
9.5: Paddy Horner: Urethritis
9.6: Raj Patel, Patrick French: Ano-genital ulcers
9.7: Charles Lacey, Henry de Vries: Ano-genital lumps
9.8: Jonathan Ross: Pelvic inflammatory disease
9.9: Zara Haider: Principles of contraception
Section 10 - Environmental medicine, occupational medicine, and poisoning
10.1: Jonathan Ayers: Introduction
10.2.1: Raymond Agius, Sen Debasish: Occupational and environmental health
10.2.2: Lawrence Waterman, Michelle Twigg: Occupational safety
10.2.3: Michael Bagshaw: Aviation medicine
10.2.4: Mark Glover: Diving medicine
10.2.5: David Koh, Tar-Ching Aw: Noise
10.2.6: Tar-Ching Aw: Vibration
10.3.1: Om Kurmi, Kin Bong Hubert Lam: Air pollution
10.3.2: M.A. Stroud: Heat
10.3.3: M.A. Stroud: Cold
10.3.4: Peter Fenner: Drowning
10.3.5: Chris Andrews: Lightning and electrical injuries
10.3.6: Eric Swenson, Tyler J. Albert: Diseases of high terrestrial altitudes
10.3.7: Jill Meara: Radiation
10.3.8: Peter J. Baxter: Disasters: earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes & floods
10.3.9: Manfred Green: Bioterrorism
10.4.1: J.A. Vale, Nick Bateman, and Sally Bradberry: Poisoning by drugs and chemicals
10.4.2: D. A. Warrell: Injuries, envenoming, poisoning, allergic reactions caused by animals
10.4.3: D. A. Warrell, Hans Persson: Poisonous fungi
10.4.4: Michael Eddleston, Hans Persson: Poisonous plants
Section 11 - Nutrition
11.1: Keith N. Frayn, Rhys Evans: Macronutrient metabolism
11.2: Tom Hill, David Bender: Vitamins
11.3: Katherine Younger: Minerals and trace elements
11.4: Alan Jackson: Severe malnutrition
11.5: Jim Mann, Stewart Truswell: Diseases of affluent societies and the need for dietary change
11.6: Sadaf Farooqi: Obesity
11.7: Jeremy Woodward: Artificial nutrition support
Section 12 - Metabolic disorders
12.1: Timothy M. Cox: The inborn errors of metabolism - general aspects
12.2: George Hoffman, Stefan Koelker: Protein-dependent Inborn errors of metabolism
12.3.1: Robin Lachmann, Timothy M. Cox: Glycogen storage diseases
12.3.2: Timothy M. Cox: Inborn errors of fructose metabolism
12.3.3: Timothy M. Cox: Disorders of galactose, pentose, and pyruvate metabolism
12.4: Lynette Fairbanks, Tony Marinaki, and Richard W. E. Watts: Disorders of purine and pyrimidine metabolism
12.5: Timothy M. Cox: The porphyrias
12.6: James Scott, Jaimini Cegla: Lipid and lipoprotein disorders
12.7.1: William J. H. Griffiths, Timothy M. Cox: Hereditary haemochromatosis
12.7.2: Pramod Mistry, Michael Schilsky: Inherited diseases of copper metabolism: Wilson's Disease and Menke's Disease
12.8: Patrick B. Deegan, Timothy M. Cox: Lysosomal disease
12.9: Anthony Wierzbicki: Disorders of peroxisomal metabolism in adults
12.10: Christopher Danpure, Sonia Fargue, and Dawn Milliner: Hereditary disorders of oxalate metabolism the primary hyperoxalurias
12.11: Julian Seifter: Disturbances of acid base homeostasis
12.12.1: Mark Pepys: The acute phase response and C-reactive protein
12.12.2: Helen Lachmann, Philip Hawkins, and Stefan Berg: Hereditary periodic fever syndrome
12.12.3: Mark Pepys, Philip Hawkins: Amyloidosis
12.13: David A. Lomas: Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency and the serpinopathies
Section 13 - Endocrine disorders
13.1: V. Krishna Chatterjee, Mark Gurnell, and Rob Fowkes: Principles of hormone action
13.2.1: John Wass, Niki Karavitaki: Disorders of the anterior pituitary gland
13.2.2: John Wass, Niki Karavitaki, and Shahzada K. Ahmed: Disorders of the posterior pituitary gland
13.3.1: Anthony P. Weetman, Kristien Boelaert: The thyroid gland and disorders of thyroid function
13.3.2: Kristien Boelaert, Anthony P. Weetman: Thyroid cancer
13.4: Rajesh V. Thakker: Parathyroid disorders & diseases altering calcium metabolism
13.5.1: Mark Sherlock, Will Drake, and Mark Gurnell: Disorders of the adrenal cortex
13.5.2: Nils Krone: Congenital adrenal hyperplasia
13.6.1: Stephen Franks: Ovarian disorders
13.6.2: Pierre Bouloux: Disorders of male reproduction
13.6.3: Gael M. MacLean: Benign breast disease
13.6.4: Ian Eardley: Sexual dysfunction
13.7.1: Gary Butler: Normal growth and its disorders
13.7.2: Fiona Ryan, Sejal Patel: Normal puberty and its disorders
13.7.3: Ahmed Faisal, Angela Lucas-Herald: Normal and abnormal sexual differentiation
13.8: Stephen Bloom, Tricia Tan, and Bernard Khoo: Pancreatic endocrine disorders & MEN
13.9.1: Colin Dayan, Julia Platts: Diabetes mellitus
13.9.2: Mark Evans, Ben Challis: Hypoglycaemia
13.10: John Wass, Tom Barber: Hormonal manifestations of non-endocrine disorders
13.11: Jo Arendt, Tim Cox: The pineal gland and melatonin
Section 14 - Medical disorders in pregnancy
14.1: David J. Williams: Physiological changes of normal pregnancy
14.2: David J. Williams: Nutrition in pregnancy
14.3: David J. Williams: Medical management of normal pregnancy
14.4: Fergus McCarthy: Hypertension in pregnancy
14.5: Kate Wiles: Renal disease in pregnancy
14.6: Catherine E. Head: Heart disease in pregnancy
14.7: Peter McCallum, Louise Bowles: Thrombosis in pregnancy
14.8: Tina Hartert, Meredith Pugh: Chest disease in pregnancy
14.9: Cath Williamson, Michael Heneghan: Liver and gastrointestinal disease during pregnancy
14.10: Bryony Jones, Anne Dornhurst: Diabetes in pregnancy
14.11: David Carty: Endocrine disease in pregnancy
14.12: Pooja Dassan: Neurological conditions in pregnancy
14.13: Gudula Kirtschig, Fenella Wojnarowska: The skin in pregnancy
14.14: Cathy Nelson-Piercy, May Ching Soh: Autoimmune rheumatic disorders & vasculitis in pregnancy
14.15: Rosie Burton: Maternal infection in pregnancy
14.16: Lawrence Impey: Fetal effects of maternal infection
14.17: David Perry, Katharine Lowndes: Blood disorders in pregnancy
14.18: Robin A. F. Crawford: Malignant disease in pregnancy
14.19: Rupert Gauntlett: Maternal critical care
14.20: Lucy MacKillop, Charlotte Frise: Prescribing in pregnancy
14.21: Aarthi Mohan: Contraception for women with medical diseases
Section 15 - Gastroenterological disorders
15.1: Satish Keshav, Michael FitzPatrick: Structure and function of the gastrointestinal tract
15.2: Jeremy Woodward: Symptoms of gastrointestinal disease
15.3.1: James East, Brian P. Saunders: Colonoscopy and flexible sigmoidoscopy
15.3.2: James East, George Webster: Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy
15.3.3: Michael Maher, Fiona Moloney: Radiology of the gastrointestinal tract
15.3.4: Jervoise Andreyev: Investigation of gastrointestinal function
15.4.1: Justin Davies, Simon Buczacki: The acute abdomen
15.4.2: Vanessa Brown, TA Rockall: Gastrointestinal Bleeding
15.5: Arthur Kaser, Joya Bhattacharyya: Immune disorders of the gastrointestinal tract
15.6: John Gibson, Douglas Robertson: The mouth and salivary glands
15.7: Rebecca C. Fitzgerald, Massimiliano di Pietro: Diseases of the oesophagus
15.8: Joseph Sung, Mok Hing Yiu: Peptic ulcer disease
15.9.1: Rebecca Scott, T.M. Tan, S.R. Bloom: Hormones and the gastrointestinal tract
15.9.2: B. Khoo, T.M. Tan, S.R. Bloom: Carcinoid syndrome
15.10.1: Alastair Forbes, Victoria Mulcahy: Differential diagnosis and investigation of malabsorption
15.10.2: Ray Playford, Stephen Middleton: Bacterial overgrowth of the small intestine
15.10.3: David Sanders, Peter Mooney: Coeliac disease
15.10.4: Kikkeri N. Naresh: Gastrointestinal lymphomas
15.10.5: Timothy M. Cox: Disaccharidase Deficiency
15.10.6: Didier Raoult, Florence Fenollar: Whipple's Disease
15.10.7: Stephen Middleton, Simon Gabe, Raymond Playford: Effects of massive bowel resection
15.10.8: Vineet Ahuja, Govind Makharia: Malabsorption syndromes in the Tropics
15.11: Miles Parkes, Tim Raine: Crohn's disease
15.12: Peter Irving, Jeremy Sanderson: Ulcerative colitis
15.13: Qasim Aziz, Adam Farmer: Irritable bowel syndrome
15.14: Niel Mortensen, Nicholas Buchs, Roel Hompes, Shazad Ashraf: Colonic diverticular disease
15.15: Uhlig Holm: Congenital abnormalities of the gastrointestinal tract
15.16: J. Bridgewater, Stephen Pereira, Peter Labib,: Cancers of the gastrointestinal tract
15.17: Ray Boyapati: Vascular disorders of the GI tract
15.18: Sarah O'Brien: Gastrointestinal infections
15.19: Alexander E. S. Gimson: Miscellaneous disorders of the bowel
15.20: Alexander E. S. Gimson, William Gelson: Structure and function of the liver, biliary tree and pancreas
15.21: Wajahat Mehal: Pathobiology of chronic liver disease
15.22.1: Jane Collier: Investigation and management of jaundice
15.22.2: Arroyo Vicente, Javier Fernández: Cirrhosis and ascites
15.22.3: Peter Hayes, Marcus Robertson: Portal hypertension and variceal bleeding
15.22.4: Debbie Shawcross, Paul Middleton: Hepatic encephalopathy
15.22.5: Rajiv Jalan, Jane Macnaughtan: Liver failure
15.22.6: John O'Grady: Liver transplantation
15.23.1: Alexander Graeme, Kate Nash: Hepatitis A to E
15.23.2: Gideon Hirschfield, G. J. Webb: Autoimmune hepatitis
15.23.3: David Jones, Jessica Dyson: Primary biliary cholangitis
15.23.4: Roger W. Chapman, Kate Williamson: Primary sclerosing cholangitis
15.24.1: Ewan Forrest: Alcoholic liver disease
15.24.2: Quentin Anstee, Chris Day: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
15.24.3: Guruprasad Aithal: Drug-induced liver disease
15.24.4: Alexander Gimson: Vascular disorders of the liver
15.24.5: James Neuberger: The liver in systemic disease
15.24.6: Michael Allison, Graeme Alexander, David Lomas: Primary and secondary liver tumours
15.24.7: Richard Thompson: Liver and biliary diseases in infancy and childhood
15.25: Colin Johnson, Mark Wright: Diseases of the gallbladder and biliary tree
15.26.1: Ross Carter, Colin McKay, Euan Dickson: Acute pancreatitis
15.26.2: Marco Bruno, Djuna Cahen: Chronic pancreatitis
15.26.3: Steve Pereira, James Skipworth: Tumours of the pancreas
Section 16 - Cardiovascular disorders
16.1.1: Keith Channon, Patrick Vallance: Blood vessels and the endothelium
16.1.2: Rhys Evans, Kenneth MacLeod, Steven B. Marston, and Nicholas J. Severs: Cardiac physiology
16.2.1: Jeremy Dwight: Chest pain, breathlessness and fatigue
16.2.2: Kim Rajappan, A. C. Rankin, A. D. McGavigan, and S. M. Cobbe: Syncope and palpitation
16.3.1: Andrew R. Houghton, David Gray: Electrocardiography
16.3.2: Adrian P. Banning, Andrew R. J. Mitchell, and James D. Newton: Echocardiography
16.3.3: Nikant Sabharwal, Andrew Kelion, Theo Karamitos, and Stefan Neubauer: Cardiac investigations: nuclear, MRI and CT
16.3.4: Edward D. Folland: Cardiac catheterisation and angiography
16.4: Matthew Ginks, Gregory Y. H. Lip, D. Lane, S. M. Cobbe, A. D. McGavigan, and A. C. Rankin: Cardiac arrhythmias
16.5.1: Theresa McDonagh, Kaushik Guha: Epidemiology and general pathophysiological classification of heart failure
16.5.2: Andrew L. Clark, John G. F. Cleland: Acute heart failure: definitions, investigation and management
16.5.3: John G. F. Cleland, Andrew L. Clark: Chronic heart failure: definitions, investigation and management
16.5.4: Darren Green, Philip Kalra: Cardiorenal syndrome
16.5.5: Jayan Parameshwar, Steven Tsui: Cardiac transplantation and mechanical circulatory support
16.6: Michael Henein: Valvular heart disease
16.7.1: Jay W. Mason: Myocarditis
16.7.2: William J. McKenna, Perry Elliot, and Oliver Guttman: The cardiomyopathies: hypertrophic, dilated, restrictive and right ventricular
16.7.3: Speciac heart muscle disorders
16.8: Michael Henein: Pericardial disease
16.9.1: Jonathan R. Carapetis: Acute rheumatic fever
16.9.2: James L. Harrison, Bernard D. Prendergast, and William A. Littler: Endocarditis
16.9.3: Peter F. Currie: Cardiac disease in HIV infection
16.9.4: Krishna Somers: Cardiovascular syphilis
16.10: Thomas A. Traill: Tumours of the heart
16.11: Thomas A. Traill: Cardiac involvement in genetic disease
16.12: S. A. Thorne: Congenital heart disease in the adult
16.13.1: Robin P. Choudhury, Edward A. Fisher: Biology & pathology of atherosclerosis
16.13.2: Goodarz Danaei, Kazem Rahimi: Coronary heart disease: epidemiology and prevention
16.13.3: Adam D. Timmis: Management of stable angina
16.13.4: Keith A. A. Fox, Rajesh K. Kharbanda: Management of acute coronary syndromes
16.13.5: Edward D. Folland: Percutaneous interventional cardiac procedures
16.13.6: Rana Sayeed, David Taggart: Coronary artery bypass and valve surgery
16.14.1: Andrew R. J. Mitchell, James D. Newton, and Adrian P. Banning: Acute aortic syndromes
16.14.2: Janet Powell, Alun Davies: Peripheral arterial disease
16.14.3: Christopher Dudley: Cholesterol embolism
16.15.1: Nicholas W. Morrell: Structure and function of the pulmonary circulation
16.15.2: Nicholas W. Morrell: Pulmonary hypertension
16.16.1: Paul D. Stein, Fadi Matta, and John D. Firth: Deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism
16.16.2: David Keeling: Therapeutic anticoagulation
16.17.1: Bryan Williams: Essential hypertension: definition, epidemiology and pathophysiology
16.17.2: Bryan Williams, John D. Firth: Essential hypertension: diagnosis, assessment and treatment
16.17.3: Morris J. Brown, Fraz Mir: Secondary hypertension
16.17.4: Nilesh J. Samani, Maciej Tomaszewski: Mendelian disorders causing hypertension
16.17.5: Gregory Y. H. Lip, Gareth Beevers: Hypertensive urgencies and emergencies
16.18: Peter S. Mortimer: Chronic peripheral oedema and lymphoedema
16.19: John D. Firth: Idiopathic oedema of women
Section 17 - Critical care
17.1: Carole Foot, Liz Hickson: The clinical approach to the patient who is very ill
17.2: Gavin Perkins, Jasmeet Soar, Jerry P. Nolan, and David A. Gabbott,: Cardiac arrest
17.3: Anthony F. T. Brown: Anaphylaxis
17.4: Rupert Pearse, Tom Abbott: Preparing patients with medical conditions for major surgery
17.5: Mark Griffiths, Simon Finney, Jeremy Cordingley, and Susannah Leaver,: Acute respiratory failure
17.6: Michael Pinsky: The circulation and circulatory support in the critically ill
17.7: David K. Menon: Management of raised intracranial pressure
17.8: Michael Reade: Sedation and analgesia in the ICU
17.9: Greet Van den Berghe, Eva Boonen: Metabolic and endocrine changes in acute and chronic critical illness
17.10: Philip Levin, Charles Sprung: Palliative and end of life care in the ICU
17.11: Paul Murphy: Neurological death and organ donation
17.12: T Jack Iwashyna, Mark Mikkelsen: Medical problems in ICU survivors
Section 18 - Respiratory disorders
18.1.1: Pallav Shah: The upper respiratory tract
18.1.2: Pallav Shah: Airways and alveoli
18.2: Samuel Kemp, Julian Hopkin: The clinical presentation of respiratory disease
18.3.1: G. J. Gibson: Respiratory function tests
18.3.2: Sue Copley: Thoracic imaging
18.3.3: Pallav Shah: Bronchoscopy, thoracoscopy and tissue biopsy
18.4.1: Paul Little: Upper respiratory tract infections
18.4.2: Wei Shen Lim: Pneumonia in the normal host
18.4.3: Wei Shen Lim: Nosocomial pneumonia
18.4.4: Onn Min Kon, Hannah Jarvis: Mycobacteria
18.4.5: Anton Pozniak, Julia Choy,: Pulmonary complications of HIV infection
18.5.1: Matthew Hind, James Hull: Upper airway obstruction
18.5.2: Mary Morrell, Matthew Hind, Julia Kelly, and Alison McMillan: Sleep-related breathing disorders
18.6: S. R. Durham, Hesham Saleh: Allergic rhinitis
18.7: Andrew Menzies-Gow, Alexandra Nanzer-Kelly: Asthma
18.8: Nicholas Hopkinson: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
18.9: Wilson Robert: Bronchiectasis
18.10: Andrew Bush, Caroline Elston: Cystic fibrosis
18.11.1: Athol U. Wells, Felicia Teo: Diffuse parenchymal lung disease: an introduction
18.11.2: Athol U. Wells, P. Molyneaux, and A. G. Nicholson: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
18.11.3: Athol U. Wells, V. Kouranos: Bronchiolitis obliterans and cryptogenic organising pneumonia
18.11.4: Athol U. Wells, M. Kokosi: The lung in autoimmune rheumatic disorders
18.11.5: Athol U. Wells, G. P. Margaritopoulos: The lung in vasculitis
18.12: Robert P. Baughman, Elyse E. Lower: Sarcoidosis
18.13: Peter Reid: Pneumoconioses
18.14.1: Stephen Bourke, Gavin P. Spickett: Diffuse alveolar haemorrhage
18.14.2: Stephen Bourke, Gavin P. Spickett: Eosinophilic pneumonia
18.14.3: Stephen Bourke: Lymphocytic infiltrations of the lung
18.14.4: Stephen Bourke, Gavin P. Spickett: Hypersensitivity pneumonitis
18.14.5: Stephen Bourke: Pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis
18.14.6: Stephen Bourke: Lymphangioleiomyomatosis
18.14.7: Stephen Bourke: Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis
18.14.8: Stephen Bourke: Pulmonary amyloidosis
18.14.9: Stephen Bourke: Lipoid (lipid) pneumonia
18.14.10: Stephen Bourke: Pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis
18.14.11: Chris Stenton: Toxic gases and aerosols
18.14.12: Stephen Bourke: Radiation pneumonitis
18.14.13: Stephen Bourke: Drug-induced lung disease
18.15: Michael Polkey: Chronic Respiratory Failure
18.16: Andrew Fisher, Peter Hopkins: Lung transplantation
18.17: Nicholas Maskell, Duneesha de Fonseka: Pleural disease
18.18: Michael Polkey, John Shneerson: Disorders of the thoracic cage and diaphragm
18.19.1: Stephen G. Spiro: Lung cancer
18.19.2: Stephen G. Spiro: Pulmonary metastases
18.19.3: Y.C. Gary Lee: Pleural tumours
18.19.4: Y.C. Gary Lee: Mediastinal tumours and cysts
Section 19 - Rheumatological disorders
19.1: Thomas Pap: Structure and function - Joints and connective tissue
19.2: Christopher Deighton, Fiona Pearce: Clinical presentation and diagnosis of rheumatological disorders
19.3: Michael Doherty, Peter C. Lanyon: Clinical investigation
19.4: Carlo Ammendolia: Back pain and regional disorders
19.5: John Isaacs, Kenneth Baker: Rheumatoid arthritis
19.6: J. Braun, Joachim Sieper: Spondyloarthritis and related conditions
19.7: Graham Raftery, Muddassir Shaikh: Infection and arthritis
19.8: Carmel Stober, Hill Gaston: Reactive arthritis
19.9: Philip Conaghan: Osteoarthritis
19.10: Michael Doherty, Edward Roddy: Crystal-related arthropathies
19.11.1: David A. Isenberg, Ian A. Giles: Introduction
19.11.2: David A. Isenberg, Anisur Rahman: Systemic lupus erythematosus and related disorders
19.11.3: Christopher Denton: Systemic sclerosis
19.11.4: Wan-Fai Ng: Sjogren's syndrome
19.11.5: Ingrid Lundberg, Hector Chinoy, and Robert Cooper: Myositis
19.11.6: Raashid Luqmani, Cristina Ponte: Large vessel vasculitis (Takayasu, GCA)
19.11.7: David Jayne: ANCA associated vasculitis
19.11.8: Loic Guillevin,: Polyarteritis nodosa
19.11.9: Richard Watts: Small vessel vasculitis
19.11.10: Hassan Yazici, Sebahattin Yurdakul, and Izznet Fresko: Behcet's syndrome
19.11.11: Eric Matteson, Bhaskar Dasgupta: Polymyalgia rheumatica
19.11.12: Brian McCrindle: Kawasaki disease
19.12: Ade Adebajo, Lisa Dunkley, and Stuart Carter: Miscellaneous conditions presenting to the rheumatologist
Section 20 - Disorders of the skeleton
20.1: Paul Wordsworth, Kassin Javaid: Skeletal disorders general approach and clinical conditions
20.2: Nigel Burrows: Inherited defects of connective tissue: Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Marfan's syndrome, and pseudoxanthoma elasticum
20.3: Martin McNally: Osteomyelitis
20.4: Nick Harvey, Cyrus Cooper, and Juliet Compston: Osteoporosis
20.5: Gavin Clunie: Osteonecrosis, osteochondrosis, and osteochondritis dissecans
20.6: Helen Hatcher: Bone cancer
Section 21 - Disorders of the kidney and urinary tract
21.1: Steve Harper: Structure and function of the kidney
21.2.1: Michael L. Moritz, Juan Carlos Ayus: Disorders of water and sodium homeostasis
21.2.2: John Firth: Disorders of potassium homeostasis
21.3: John Firth: Clinical presentation of renal disease
21.4: Andrew Davenport: Clinical investigation of renal disorders
21.5: John Firth: Acute kidney injury
21.6: Alastair Hutchinson: Chronic kidney disease
21.7.1: Robert Mactier: Haemodialysis
21.7.2: Simon Davies: Peritoneal dialysis
21.7.3: Nick Torpey: Renal transplantation
21.8.1: John Feehally, Jonathan Barratt: Immunoglobulin A nephropathy and Henoch Schönlein purpura
21.8.2: John Feehally, Peter Topham: Thin membrane nephropathy
21.8.3: Saleem Moin, Lisa Willcocks: Minimal change nephropathy and focal segmental glomerulosclerosis
21.8.4: Fernando Fervenza, An DeVriese: Membranous nephropathy
21.8.5: Mark Little, Alan Salama: Proliferative glomerulonephritis
21.8.6: Mark Little, Tabitha Turner-Stokes: Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis
21.8.7: Marten Segelmark, Thomas Hellmark,: Anti-glomerular basement membrane disease
21.9.1: Simon D. Roger: Acute tubulointerstitial nephritis
21.9.2: Marc E. De Broe, Patrick C. D'Haese, Monique M. Elseviers, and Carlos Manuel Orantes Navarro: Chronic tubulointerstitial nephritis
21.10.1: Rudy B. Bilous: Diabetes mellitus and the kidney
21.10.2: David Jayne: The kidney in systemic vasculitis
21.10.3: Liz Lightstone, Hannah Beckwith: The kidney in rheumatological disorders
21.10.4: Ingeborg Hilderson, Jan Donck: The kidney in sarcoidosis
21.10.5: Franck Bridoux, Pierre Ronco, and Arnaud Jaccard: Renal involvement in plasma cell dyscrasias, immunoglobulin-based amyloidoses, and fibrillary glomerulopathies, lymphomas, and leukaemias
21.10.6: David Kavanagh, Edwin Wong: Haemolytic uraemic syndrome
21.10.7: Claire Sharpe: Sickle cell disease and the kidney
21.10.8: Neil Turner: Infection-associated nephropathies
21.10.9: Neil Turner: Malignancy-associated renal disease
21.10.10: Philip Kalra, Diana Vassallo: Atherosclerotic renovascular disease
21.11: Vivekenand Jha: Renal disease in the tropics
21.12: Dominique Joly, J. P. Grunfeld: Renal involvement in genetic disease
21.13: Charlie Tomson, Neil Sheerin: Urinary tract infection
21.14: F. L. Coe, Christopher Pugh, Elaine M. Worcester, and Andrew P. Evan: Disorders of renal calcium handling, urinary stones, and nephrocalcinosis
21.15: John Sayer, Fiona E. Karet: The renal tubular acidoses
21.16: Nine Knoers, Elena Levtchenko: Disorders of tubular electrolyte handling
21.17: Muhammad Magdi Yaqoob, Kieran McCafferty: Urinary tract obstruction
21.18: Tim Eisen, Freddie Hamdy, Robert Huddart: Malignant disease of the urinary tract
21.19: Aine Burns, Caroline Ashley: Drugs and the kidney
Section 22 - Haematological disorders
22.1: Chris Hatton, David C. Linch: Introduction to haematology
22.2.1: Paresh Vyas: Cellular and molecular basis of haematopoiesis
22.2.2: Wendy Erber: Diagnostic techniques in the assessment of haematological malignancies
22.3.1: Nancy Berliner: Granulocytes: function and dysfunction
22.3.2: David Steensma, Charlotte Brierley: Myelodysplastic syndromes
22.3.3: Alan Burnett, Nigel Russell: Acute myeloid leukaemia
22.3.4: Tessa Holyoake, Mhairi Copland: Chronic myeloid leukaemia
22.3.5: Ronald Hoffman, Daniel Aruch: The polycythaemias
22.3.6: Ronald Hoffman, Daniel Aruch: Thrombocytosis
22.3.7: Jerry L. Spivak, Evan M. Braunstein: Primary myelofibrosis
22.3.8: Peter F. Weller: Eosinophilia
22.3.9: Chris Hatton: Histocytoses
22.4.1: Nancy Berliner: Introduction to lymphopoiesis
22.4.2: H. Joeself Vormoor, Tobias F. Menne, and Anthony V. Moorman: Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
22.4.3: James O. Armitage, Raj Vijaya Bhatt: Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
22.4.4: James O. Armitage, Raj Vijaya Bhatt: Hodgkin lymphoma
22.4.5: Clive Zent, Vijaya Raj Polliack: Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia
22.4.6: Vincent Rajkumar, Vijaya Raj Kyle: Plasma cell myeloma and related monoclonal gammopathies
22.5.1: Irene Roberts, Vijaya Raj Dokal: Inherited bone marrow failure syndromes
22.5.2: Judith Marsh, Vijaya Raj Mufti: Aplastic anaemia
22.5.3: Lucio Luzzatto: Paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria
22.6.1: V. G. Sankaran: Introduction to erythropoiesis
22.6.2: Chris Hatton, David Weatherall: Principles and classification of anaemia
22.6.3: David Roberts, David Weatherall: Anaemia as a challenge to world health
22.6.4: J. Porter, Timothy Cox: Iron metabolism and its disorders
22.6.5: Sant-Rayn Pasricha, Hal Drakesmith: The anaemia of inflammation and chronic disease
22.6.6: AV Hoffbrand,: Megaloblastic anaemia
22.6.7: D. J. Weatherall, D Hay: Disorders of globin structure and function
22.6.8: Stephen Fuller, James Wiley: Defective red cell maturation
22.6.9: Patrick Gallagher: Red cell membrane defects
22.6.10: Alberto Zanella, Paola Bianchi: Red cell enzyme defects
22.6.11: Lucio Luzzatto: G6PD deficiency
22.6.12: Leslie Silberstein, AA Powers: Acquired haemolytic anaemias
22.7.1: Gilbert C White, Harold Roberts, Nigel Key: Biology of haemostasis and thrombosis
22.7.2: Trevor Baglin: Evaluation of the patient with a bleeding tendency
22.7.3: Nicola Curry, Susie Shapiro: Thrombocytopenia and disorders of platelet function
22.7.4: Kathy High: Genetic disorders of coagulation
22.7.5: Theodore Warkentin: Acquired coagulation disorders
22.8.1: Ed Snyder, Dominick Giovanniello: Blood transfusion
22.8.2: Emma Morris, EC Gordon-Smith: Transplantation
Section 23 - Disorders of the skin
23.1: John McGrath: Structure and function of the skin
23.2: Vanessa Venning: Clinical approach to the diagnosis of skin disease
23.3: David Kelsell, Thiviyani Maruthappu: Inherited skin disease
23.4: Kathy Taghipour, Fenella Wojnarowska: Autoimmune bullous diseases
23.5: Chris Griffiths: Papulosquamous disease
23.6: Roderick J. Hay: Dermatitis/eczema
23.7: Karen Harman, Wolha Shpadaruk: Cutaneous vasculitis, connective tissue diseases, and urticaria
23.8: Eugene Healy: Disorders of pigmentation
23.9: Hiva Fassihi: Photosensitivity
23.10: Roderick J. Hay: Infections and the skin
23.11: Alison Layton: Sebaceous and sweat gland disorders
23.12: Roderick J. Hay: Blood and lymphatic vessel disorders
23.13: David DeBerker: Hair and nail disorders
23.14: Edel O'Toole: Tumours of the skin
23.15: Clive B. Archer, Charles M. G. Archer: Skin and systemic disease
23.16: Sarah Walsh, Haur Yueh Lee, Danie Creamer: Cutaneous reactions to drugs
23.17: Rodney Sinclair: Management of skin disease
Section 24 - Neurological disorders
24.1: Christopher Kennard: Introduction and approach to the patient with neurological disease
24.2: Adam Zeman: Mind and brain: building bridges linking neurology, psychiatry, and psychology
24.3.1: Andrew Larner, Rhys Davies: Lumbar puncture
24.3.2: Christian Krarup: Electrophysiology of the central and peripheral nervous systems
24.3.3: Shelley Renowden, Marcus Bradley: Imaging in neurological diseases
24.3.4: Kerry R. Mills: Investigation of central motor pathways: magnetic brain stimulation
24.4.1: Peter Nestor: Disturbances of higher cerebral function
24.4.2: Jonathan Schott: Alzheimer's disease and other dementias
24.5.1: Arjune Sen: Epilepsy in later childhood and adults
24.5.2: Matthew Walker: Narcolepsy
24.5.3: Paul Reading: Sleep disorders
24.5.4: Andrew Larner: Syncope
24.5.5: David Bates: The unconscious patient
24.5.6: Peter Hutchinson, John Pickard, and Ari Ercole: Brain death and prolonged disorders of consciousness
24.6.1: Christopher Kennard, Sara Ajina: Disorders of the visual pathways
24.6.2: Michael Strupp, Thomas Brandt: Disorders of eye movements and balance
24.6.3: Linda Luxon: Disorders of auditory function
24.7.1: Mark Edwards: Subcortical structures: the cerebellum, basal ganglia, and thalamus
24.7.2: K. Ray Chaudhuri, Elisaveta Sokolov, and Vinod Metta: Parkinsonism and other extrapyramidal diseases
24.7.3: Kailash Bhatia, Bettina Balint: Movement disorders other than Parkinson s disease
24.7.4: Nicholas Wood: Ataxic disorders
24.8: Peter Goadsby: Headache
24.9: David Bates: Brainstem syndromes
24.10.1: Peter Rothwell: Stroke: cerebrovascular disease
24.10.2: Siddharthan Chandran, Alisdair Coles: Demyelinating disorders of the central nervous system
24.10.3: Tim Lawrence, Laurence Watkins: Traumatic brain injury
24.10.4: Jeremy Rees: Intracranial tumours
24.10.5: Alexandra Sinclair: Idiopathic intracranial hypertension
24.11.1: Guy Thwaites, Diederik van de Beek: Bacterial infections
24.11.2: Tom Solomon, Fiona McGill: Viral infections
24.11.3: Richard Kerr, Tim Lawrence: Intracranial abscess
24.11.4: Hadi Manji: Neurosyphilis and neuroAIDS
24.11.5: Simon Mead: Human prion disease
24.12: Robert D. M. Hadden: Disorders of cranial nerves
24.13.1: Andrew Larner, Anu Jacob: Diseases of the spinal cord
24.13.2: W.S. El Masri, M. P. Barnes: Spinal cord injury and its management
24.14: Christopher Mathias, David Low: Disorders of the autonomic nervous system
24.15: Pamela Shaw, Thomas Jenkins, and Alice Brockington: The motor neuron diseases
24.16: Robert D. M. Hadden: Diseases of the peripheral nerves
24.17: Swati Sathe: Inherited neurodegenerative diseases
24.18: David Hilton-Jones: Disorders of the neuromuscular junction
24.19.1: Michael Hanna, Enrico Bugiardini: Structure and function of muscle
24.19.2: Kate Bushby, Chiara Marini-Bettolo: Muscular dystrophy
24.19.3: David Hilton-Jones: Myotonia
24.19.4: David Hilton-Jones: Metabolic and endocrine disorders
24.19.5: D. M. Turnbull, Patrick Chinnery: Mitochondrial disease
24.20: Chris Verity, Jane A. Hurst, and Helen Firth: Developmental abnormalities of the central nervous system
24.21: Niel Scolding: Acquired metabolic disorders and the nervous system
24.22: Niel Scolding: Neurological complications of systemic disease
24.23: Jeremy Rees: Paraneoplastic neurological syndromes
24.24: Camilla Buckley, Angela Vincent: Autoimmune encephalitis and Morvan s syndrome
Section 25 - Disorders of the eye
25.1: Tasanee Braithwaite, Richard W. Lee, and Peng T. Khaw: The eye in general medicine
Section 26 - Psychiatric and drug-related disorders
26.1: Michael Sharpe: General introduction
26.2: Smyth Roger: Psychiatric assessment of the medical patient
26.3.1: Bart Sheehan, Thomas Jackson: Confusion
26.3.2: Keith Hawton, Kate Saunders: Self-harm
26.3.3: Michael Sharpe: Medically unexplained symptoms
26.3.4: Jane Walker: Low mood
26.4.1: Philip J Cowen: Psychopharmacology in medical practice
26.4.2: Michael Sharpe: Psychological treatment in medical practice
26.5.1: Bart Sheehan: Delirium
26.5.2: Bart Sheehan: Dementia
26.5.3: Jason Caplan, Curtis McKnight: Organic psychoses
26.5.4: Jonathan Wood: Alcohol misuse
26.5.5: Stephen Potts: Substance misuse
26.5.6: Lydia Chwastiak, Joseph Cerimele: Depression
26.5.7: Kate Saunders, John Geddes: Bipolar disorder
26.5.8: Steve Epstein, Ted Liao: Anxiety disorders including OCD
26.5.9: Jon Bisson: Acute stress reactions, adjustment and PTSD
26.5.10: Christopher G. Fairburn: Eating disorders
26.5.11: Stephen Lawrie: Schizophrenia
26.5.12: Michael Sharpe, Simon Wessely: Somatic symptom disorders and CFS
26.5.13: Iain Jordan: Personality disorder
26.6.1: Amy O'Donnell, Eileen Kaner, and Nick Heather: Brief interventions for excessive alcohol consumption
26.6.2: Susan Jebb, Paul Aveyard: Obesity and weight management
26.6.3: Paul Aveyard: Smoking cessation
26.7.1: Michael Sharpe: Liaison psychiatry
Section 27 - Forensic medicine
27.1: Jason Payne-James, Paul Marks, Steven Karch, and Ralph Bouhaidar: Forensic and legal medicine
Section 28 - Sports and exercise medicine
28.1: Cathy Speed: Sports and exercise medicine
Section 29 - Biochemistry in medicine
29.1: Brian Shine, Nishan Guha: The use of biochemical analysis for diagnosis and management
Section 30 - Acute Medicine
30.1: John Firth: Acute medical presentations
30.2: John Firth: Practical Procedures

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