Clinical Dermatology (Oxford Medical Publications) [Hardcover]

Rona M. MacKie (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 12, 1996 | ISBN-10: 0192627635 | ISBN-13: 978-0192627636 | Edition: 4

This concise yet comprehensive textbook, which is illustrated in full colour throughout, has established itself as a favourite not only with undergraduate medical students, but also with nurses and pharmacists in practice and in training, and with general practitioners and other physicians seeking a clear and well-illustrated guide to dermatology. In response to changes in the approach in medical education, this fourth edition is designed as a problem-solving book. Every chapter begins with a number of clinical cases. Suggested management plans are supplied at the end of the chapter. In addition to these problem-solving exercises, a number of projects are suggested, which can be carried out using either an on-line database or a reasonable medical library. The fourth edition also sees other significant changes: many of the full colour illustrations to be found throughout the text are new for this edition, and the page size has been enlarged and the design updated to make the book easier and more appealing to use. However, features such as growth points and areas of development, familiar to users of previous editions, remain. From Reviews of Previous Editions: 'It contains many excellent colour photographs, so for most readers the additional purchase of a dermatological atlas will be unnecessary...tightly packed with information about all the common and many of the less common skin diseases.' The Lancet '...the illustrations have to rank among the best I have seen in any text including most atlases of dermatology.' Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology '...as a clear, concise, beautifully illustrated, easily portable ...textbook in dermatology, this text is hard to beat. Professor MacKie's book continues to be an undergraduate dermatology tour de force.' Clinical and Experimental Dermatology This book is intended for undergraduate clinical medical students, junior doctors, trainee and practising general practitioners.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"As a clear, concise, beautifully illustrated, easily portable, entry level text book in dermatology, this text is hard to beat. Professor MacKie's book continues to be an undergraduate dermatology 'tour de force.'" --Clinical and Experimental Dermatology on a previous edition

About the Author

Rona M. MacKie, Professor and Chairman, Department of Dermatology, University of Glasgow. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 336 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 4 edition (December 12, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0192627635
• ISBN-13: 978-0192627636
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 8.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Dr.Azeem Alam Khan, February 19, 2000

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Dr.Azeem Alam Khan (Rawalpindi Cantt--PAKISTAN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Clinical Dermatology (Oxford Core Texts) (Paperback)

I am Dr.Azeem Alam Khan, a consultant dermatologist from Pakistan.I have recently done my M.Sc in Clinical Dermatology from St.John's Institiute of Dermatology London.During my one year stay there I found that book very useful.It has got simple illustrations and pictures are clear.I shall be grateful if somebody could donate this book for our hospital library.

5.0 out of 5 stars Student's Most Beautyful Primer For The Field, February 28, 1998

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This review is from: Clinical Dermatology (Oxford Core Texts) (Paperback)

This is a concise book (300 text-pages). So, logically, an amount of specialty-descriptions and therapeutic "one-in-ten-thousand-cases" one would find in a typical standard-textbook are omitted here. Yet, all relevant entities of Dermatology are covered and presented in detail when needed. 200 or so full-color-pictures display each condition in a manner that aims at immediate understanding, with a tendency towards the more macroscopic aspects. Besides, this book even has got a didactic concept: Each chapter is forewarded by a summary of the entities to follow and by up to five or so well-knit stories of unsolved cases all of which made us courious to know more. Great plus: You don't have to think of rehearsing, Clin. Derm. just takes You there. And an aesthetic concept: Quite intelligent use of types, colors from blue to green, and a gifted person's coverpainting...if that should matter. Readability: The book starts off with the relavant and typical conditions and there is no superfluous information, so there is no need for a priority list. The text progresses well, non-redundancy and TV-like "consumability" are its srength. You will remermber All You read and maybe even understand it... So just go from cover to cover, within two or three days You are easily there - see You.