Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 18th Edition

 

CURRENT
All chapters have been completely updated to reflect the latest knowledge and evidence, and important new chapters have been added, including: "Systems Biology in Health andDisease," "The Human Microbiome," "The Biology of Aging," and "Neuropsychiatric Illnesses in War Veterans.

 

CONNECTED
Harrison's covers more global aspects of medicine than any other textbook, and features such chapters as "Global Issues in Medicine," by Jim Yong Kim, Paul Farmer, and Joseph Rhatigan, and new to the 18th edition, "Primary Care in Low and Middle Income Countries."

 

COMPREHENSIVE
No other resource delivers coverage of disease mechanisms and management like Harrison's, including world-renowned chapters on HIV/AIDS, STEMI and non-STEMI myocardial infarction, cancer biology, multiple sclerosis, and diabetes.

 

The Harrison’s Multi-Media DVD— Better Than Ever!
The Harrison’s DVD has been expanded to include an extensive video demonstration ofthe neurological physical examination, and video tutorials on how to perform essential clinical procedures, including:

 

 57 additional chapters and more than 2,000 images make the companion DVD an essential part of every physician's education, practice, and lifelong learning.The DVD also features PowerPoint presentations from fifty chapters to facilitate classroom lectures, and a free trial subscription to AccessMedicine.com (including Harrison's Online).

 

Harrison’s 18e is proud to present a tribute to longtime editor, Eugene Braunwald, MDfor his outstanding and continuing contributions to medical knowledge and practice.

 

 

 

Lecturer, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Senior Physician, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Deputy Editor, New England Journal of Medicine

Boston, MA

Adjunct Investigator, National Institute of Aging

National Institutes of Health

Bethesda, MD

William Ellery Channing Professor of Medicine

Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics

Harvard Medical School

Director, Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Boston, MA

Robert G. Dunlap Professor of Medicine

Dean, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Executive Vice-President of the University of

Pennsylvania for the Health System

Philadelphia, PA

Chief, Laboratory of Immunoregulation

Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious

Diseases, National Institute of Health

Bethesda, MD

Robert A. Fishman Distinguished Professor and Chairman

Department of Neurology

University of California, San Francisco

San Francisco, CA

Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine

Harvard Medical School

Chairman,Department of Medicine

Physician-in-Chief, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Boston, MA