Understanding Medical Research

The Studies That Shaped Medicine
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-470-65448-4
Verlag: Turner Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, 388 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 502 g

Medical students and junior and senior doctors are frequently called upon to give research presentations, write reports, and answer exam questions on specific areas of medical research.

Understanding Medical Research: The Studies That Shaped Medicine is an exciting new title that offers a unique and valuable approach to understanding historically influential studies in important areas of medicine.

Featuring chapters from Sir Liam Donaldson and Sir David Weatherall, amongst others, world leading researchers identify ten primary research papers that have shaped the direction of research in their given topic, examining why they were carried out, key findings, and how they changed the field.

Each chapter also contains short sections on 'Key Questions Remaining' which outline outstanding areas where further research is needed, and a link to 'Key Laboratories/Clinics' which point the reader to major research groups of international standing.

Covering the seminal research in core areas of medicine, Understanding Medical Research provides an authoritative framework on each topic for medical students and healthcare professionals.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goodfellow, John A

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Biomedizin, Medizinische Forschung, Klinische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors
Preface
Foreword
by Sir Liam Donaldson
Acknowledgements

1 Population Health
Douglas Noble, Felix Greaves and Sir Liam Donaldson

2 Patient Safety
Felix Greaves, Douglas Noble and Sir Liam Donaldson

3 Heart Failure
Martin R Cowie and Kaushik Guha

4 Acute Coronary Syndrome (NSTEMI)
Wei Yao Lim and Colin Berry

5 Lipids, Dyslipidaemia and Cardiovascular Disease
Gilbert R Thompson

6 Atrial Fibrillation
Kunihiro Nishida and Stanley Nattel

7 Asthma
Tak H Lee and Leonard Siew

8 Cystic Fibrosis
Andrew Bush

9 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Paul A Ford and Peter J Barnes

10 Pneumonia
John M Wrightson, Eleanor K Mishra and Robert J O Davies

11. Stroke
Philip M W Bath and Nikola Sprigg

12 Parkinson's Disease
Edward J Newman and Donald G Grosset

13 Epilepsy
Fergus J Rugg-Gunn

14 Motor Neuron Disease
Martin R Turner and Kevin Talbot

15 Migraine
Mark W Weatherall

16 Multiple Sclerosis
Alasdair Coles and Alastair Compston

17 The Autoimmune Basis for Guillain-Barré Syndrome
John A Goodfellow and Hugh J Willison

18 Helicobacter pylori, Peptic Ulcers and Gastric Cancer
Anahita Dua and Emad M El-Omar

19 Acute Liver Failure
James O'Beirne and Andrew Burroughs

20 Haemostasis and Thrombosis
Charles Percy and Razi Alikhan

21 Inherited Disorders of Haemoglobin
Sir David Weatherall

22 Diabetes Therapy and Prevention of Vascular Damage
Philip Home

23 Rheumatoid Arthritis
Jonathan CW Edwards and Maria J Leandro

24 Osteoarthritis
Kirsten White, Alexander S Nicholls, Anushka Soni and Nigel Arden

25 Systemic Vasculitidies
Joanna Robson, Ravi Suppiah and Raashid Luqmani

26 Polycystic Kidney Disease
Qi Quan

27 Glomerulopathies
Jenny Papakrivopoulo and Robert Unwin

28 AIDS
Tica Pichulik and Alison Simmons

29 Transplantation
Dame Elizabeth Simpson

30 Autoimmune Disease
Jonathan CW Edwards and Geraldine Cambridge

31 The Biochemistry of Depression
Philip J Cowen

32 Schizophrenia and the Dopamine Hypothesis
Mandy Johnstone and Dame Eve C. Johnstone

33 Alzheimer's Disease
Gordon Wilcock and Alistair Burns

Index.

Über Autor(innen)

John A. Goodfellow, BM BCh, PhD, is Honorary Clinical Academic Fellow at the University of Glasgow