KUMAR AND CLARK'S CLINICAL MEDICINE, 9TH EDITION

• Section 1 Good medical practice
1. Ethics, law and communication
2. Clinical pharmacology
3. Palliative medicine and symptom control
4. Global health
5. Environmental medicine
6. Poisoning
• Section 2 Clinical sciences
7. Molecular cell biology and human genetics
8. The immune system and disease
9. Water, electrolytes and acid-base balance
10. Nutrition
• Section 3 Clinical practice
11. Infectious disease
12. Sexually transmitted infections and HIV
13. Gastrointestinal disease
14. Liver disease
15. Biliary tract and pancreatic disease
16. Haematological disease
17. Malignant disease
18. Rheumatic disease
19. Bone disease
20. Kidney and urinary tract disease
21. Neurological disease
22. Psychological medicine
23. Cardiovascular disease
24. Respiratory disease
25. Critical care medicine
26. Endocrine disease
27. Diabetes mellitus
28. Lipid and metabolic disorders
29. Women’s health
30. Ear, nose and throat and eye disease
31. Skin disease

2 new chapters
• Women’s health
• Global health

25 new young consultant authors teamed with clinicians at the top of their career, to ensure the text is accessible for students and trainees.

Full text re-design
• New two-page summary for clinical chapters, giving anatomy and physiology overview and summaries for history taking and clinical examination.
• Coloured headings to help distinguish sciences, procedures, etc.)
• New icons to aid text navigation
• Divided into three sections for greater ease of navigation:
a. Good Medical Practice
b. Clinical Sciences
c. Clinical Practice

Bigger chapters unbundled into smaller chapters for ease of access.
• Clinical Pharmacy now separate from Poisoning
• STIs and HIV now separate from Infectious Disease
• Biliary Tract and Pancreatic Disease now separate from Liver
• Rheumatic Disease now separate from Bone Disease
• Lipid and Metabolic Disease now separate from Diabetes Mellitus
New! Online Editor, Adam Feather, with a team of young doctors have created in the e-book chapter summaries, key-point boxes, self-assessment, top tips, extra content (videos and images) and more…

New co-editor for the International Advisory Board.
11 new members of the International Advisory Board.
9 new online international articles, including:
• Ebola
• Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever
• Visceral Leishmaniasis
Coming soon! Semantic zoom - online text summarising tool which will provide stages of the book’s content in decreasing levels of detail according to your need - from the full text to the bare essentials. Keep checking your registered e-book for updates!

Authors
• Parveen Kumar, CBE, BSc, MD, DM (HC), FRCP, FRCP(Edin), Professor of Medicine & Education, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary, University of London, and Honorary Consultant Physician; Gastroenterologist, Barts and The London Hospitals NHS Trust and Homerton Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
• Michael L Clark, MD, FRCP, Honorary Senior Lecturer, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary,University of London and Consultant Physician, Princess Grace Hospital, London, UK