Toohey's Medicine
A Textbook for Students in the Health Care Professions
- 15th Edition - December 27, 1994
- Latest edition
- Authors: Arnold Bloom, Stephen Bloom
- Language: English
In spite of recent changes in nurse education, nurses still need to know about medicine to understand their work with patients. This is the latest edition of what has become a… Read more
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Description
Description
In spite of recent changes in nurse education, nurses still need to know about medicine to understand their work with patients. This is the latest edition of what has become a popular and enduring nursing textbook. It is a short textbook of medicine written by medical experts, but read by nurses. Nurses have consistently found this book invaluable because of the level at which the text is pitched. It has been written in consultation with nurses and covers exactly the medical knowledge that they require.These features make it still an ideal medical text for nurses:
Includes the medical knowledge nurses need
New team of contributors to widen input
Written in consultation with nurses to ensure appropriateness of information
New format and typeface - to increase readability
Includes the medical knowledge nurses need
New team of contributors to widen input
Written in consultation with nurses to ensure appropriateness of information
New format and typeface - to increase readability
Key features
Key features
Readership
Readership
Nurses - student, student occupational therapists, radiographers, complementary therapists, physiotherapists, undergraduate medical students
Table of contents
Table of contents
Clinical Observations. Causes of Disease. Infection, Immunity and Chemotherapy. Infectious Illnesses (Acute Infectious Fevers, Tropical Diseases, Skin Diseases, Sexually Transmitted Diseases). Diseases of the Circulatory System. Diseases of the Respiratory System. Diseases of the Alimentary System. Diseases of the Liver, Biliary Tract and Pancreas. Diseases of the Nervous System. Diseases of the Blood. Diseases of the Urinary System. Metabolism and Vitamins. Diabetes Mellitus. Disorders of the Endocrine System. Diseases of the Joints, Bones and Connective Tissue. Appendix Index
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 15
- Latest edition
- Published: December 27, 1994
- Language: English
About the authors
About the authors
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Arnold Bloom
Affiliations and expertise
Honorary Physician, Whittington Hospital, LondonSB
Stephen Bloom
Affiliations and expertise
Physician and Professor of Endocrinology, Hammersmith Hospital, London