Product Description

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 resouce.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8746 in Books
• Published on: 2008-03-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 2958 pages

Review

"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.

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Customer Reviews

Harrison's = Good Medicine
Potential buyers should know right off the bat that this book is for people who have a medical background only- your average person is not going to be able to understand much of it.

So who is it for then? Well, I've been in medicine for 15 years and find this book all over the hospital so really just about any health professional who wants a general reference book for how to manage adult diseases of practically any system (such as GI, respiratory, neurological disorders to name a few) will find this book to be a good resource.

Having said that, the book is mainly written as a resource for internal medicine doctors, that is docs that focus on adult medicine and have had special study and training focusing on the prevention and treatment of adult diseases. So if you're in the medical profession, deal with adults, and are looking for a good reference book on adult medical conditions and treatments, this huge and comprehensive volume is probably just what you're looking for. One caveat though, while there is a wealth of info in here on how to manage and treat adult problems, there is no mention of how to better get patients to do what they are prescribed to do (exercise, take their meds, eat less fat..) and so I also recommend health professional check out The Sixty-Second Motivator for tips on increasing patient compliance. After all, what good is the best medical advice if no one follows it?

Kindle Version
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.

As Always... PERFECT to a T!!!!
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!!!!!