Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 17th Edition (Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine (Single Vol.)) [Hardcover]

Anthony S. Fauci (Author), Eugene Braunwald (Author), Dennis L. Kasper (Author), Stephen L. Hauser (Author), Dan L. Longo (Author), J. Larry Jameson (Author), Joseph Loscalzo (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0071466339 | ISBN-13: 978-0071466332 | Publication Date: March 6, 2008 | Edition: 17

Introducing the most dramatically revised edition of Harrison's ever!

Now with NEW bonus DVD with 37 chapters and more than 500 brand new images and video clips!

A Doody's Core Title ESSENTIAL PURCHASE!

5 STAR DOODY'S REVIEW
"The book is for anyone who has the remotest association with the practice of medicine, be they internists, surgeons, nurses, technical staff, or counselors. This is the authority, and in a time of readily available but not always accurate information, this is the one source that can be relied upon....This is one of the absolute pillars of any medical library. It is the final word in internal medicine and we all owe a debt of gratitude to the editors and contributors who have created this extraordinary authority in medicine."--Doody's Review Service

MORE THAN TRUSTED, BEYOND ESSENTIAL . . .

The #1 selling medical textbook worldwide, Harrison's has defined internal medicine for millions of clinicians and students. The new 17th Edition retains Harrison's acclaimed balance of pathobiology, cardinal signs and manifestations of disease, and best approaches to patient management, yet has been massively updated to give you an innovative array of bold new features and content. If ever there was one must-have resource for clinicians and students -- this is it!

UNMATCHED EXPERTISE AT YOUR FINGERTIPS

As an unprecedented amount of medical information bombards you and your patients, where do you go to sort it out and make sense of it all? When your patients request clarification on something they've “printed off,” where do you turn for expert explanations? The same trusted resource physicians and students have turned to for more than fifty years: Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine. Now more than ever, trust Harrison's to filter and clarify the exploding knowledge base, to highlight the breakthroughs, and to deliver a clear, balanced distillation of the best and most current information on which to base clinical decisions.

THE MOST EXCITING AND EXTENSIVELY REVISED EDITION EVER!

Here are just a few of the reasons why the new 17th Edition of Harrison's is the best edition yet:

• Bonus companion DVD featuring: 37 new “e-chapters”; over 500 brand-new radiological, laboratory, and clinical images, including complete atlases; state-of-the-art video clips; an Image Bank of nearly all the illustrations contained in the parent text, and much more
• Expanded, modernized illustration program with more than 800 brand-new, additional illustrations--a 60% increase over the previous edition
• Dozens of brand new chapters on vital topics in medical education and clinical practice: Global Issues in Medicine: Patient Safety and Health Quality; Health Disparities: Atlas of EKGs; Clinical Management of Obesity; Atlas of Hematology; Atlases of Chest, Neurological, and Cardiovascular Radiology; and much more! Also included is a complete new section on biological foundations and emerging clinical applications of regenerative medicine!
• Brand new, reader-friendly text design optimizes the full-color format
• An expanded, innovative focus on global health
• NEW Global Advisory Board comprising 11 prominent medical experts from Asia, India, Europe, and South America
• Revision of the popular On Line Learning Center, which offers more skill-sharpening self-assessment questions and answers, plus additional case studies for helping you apply Harrison's content to the daily care of patients
• Harrison's related products are available in a full suite of formats to meet all your educational and clinical needs. Harrison's Practice of Medicine is a complete database of more than 700 clinical topics formatted for use at the point of care. The Harrison's Manual of Medicine is one of the most popular and heavily used handbook-sized resources in internal medicine. The Harrison's Self-Assessment and Board Review features more than 1000 board-type cases and questions and highlights the use of Harrison's as a great board prep resource.

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Editorial Reviews

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"The work of hundreds of contributors and renowned editors has made the 17th edition of Harrison's outstanding....Essential."--Choice (Choice )

About the Author

Anthony S. Fauci, MD, National Institutes of Health, Betheseda, MD.
Eugene Braunwald, MD, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA.
Dennis L. Kasper, MD, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA.
Stephen L. Hauser, MD, University of California, San Francisco, CA.
Dan L. Longo, MD, National Institutes of Health, Betheseda, MD.
J. Larry Jameson, MD, PhD, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL.
Joseph Loscalzo, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 2958 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 17 edition (March 6, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071466339
• ISBN-13: 978-0071466332
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.8 x 3.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #68,329 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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22 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars As Always... PERFECT to a T!!!!, March 18, 2008

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Jashanpreet Singh (Royal Oak,MI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 17th Edition (Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine (Single Vol.)) (Hardcover)

Well... what do I say about the "BIBLE" of medicine...Its getting better everytime..Now with lots of color pictures,newer chapters and the DVD feature,learning with Harrisons has never been easy...and Fun.This is the best edition to come out yet..
One word though... The Single volume edition is bulky.. I would prefer to buy the double volume edition anyday...just for the ease of carrying.
The newer 3 D reconstruction images are great.
Great Job by the Harrisons' team... KEEP IT UP!!!!!

10 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A suggestion for a great book, August 24, 2008

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Cast Iron Chef "Cast Iron Chef" (Tracy, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 17th Edition (Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine (Single Vol.)) (Hardcover)

This is an exceptional book. The level of coverage on any given topic is often 'the final authority' when other books don't have the answers.

I have a considerably older version of this book circa 1978 or so and decided to update my resources for a recertification exam. While this served as an excellent reference, I did find the information cumbersome to find, with the extensive index often directing me to a single instance of the item I was searching for as part of the label of a photograph (with no particularly useful information in the photograph), for instance, sometimes requiring me to look up 10 different points and reference the pdfs on the DVD to find an answer. In short the referencing system in the index left me wasting a lot of time to find information that was a bit scatterred. This tended to make me use the book as a last resort rather than a first choice.

The book is such a masterpiece of medical knowledge that giving it less than 5 stars would be unthinkable to me, but it could still be improved upon. One suggestion might be an index added to the DVD with a sophisticated search mechanism with some annotations or excerpts giving a preview of where the 'bulk' of information might be found. The quality of the information is exceptional throughout the text.

15 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Kindle Version, March 28, 2009

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tk "maturing audiophile" (lansing, mi and boston) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 17th Edition (Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine (Single Vol.)) (Kindle Edition)

I just bought the kindle edition. It seems to be working ok except for the search feature and the index (in the back of the book) is not hyperlinked making it completely useless. The figures on kindle have poor contrast but they are readable, especially when zoomed - but the figures take some concentrating on because of the poor contrast quality.

I contacted amazon and they are looking into the search problem. I will contact amazon again and ask if they will look in to the index not being hyperlinked.

I imagine the search problem may have to do with the massive size of this book 128 mb (i'd recommend NOT using whispernet for this one)

The search feature is related to a digital search index (similar to google desktop indexing your computer). There is obviously a bug with this step causing the search error.

EDIT: I think they removed the kindle version from the website until the search feature bug is figured out. My hunch is it is a firmware problem and not a e-book problem.