Textbook of Family Medicine - Softcover

McWhinney, Ian R

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195369858 ISBN 13: 9780195369854

Publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2009

Synopsis

Highly successful in its first two editions, McWhinney's Textbook of Family Medicine is one of the seminal texts in the field. While many family medicine texts simply cover the disorders a practitioner might see in clinical practice (thus they become watered-down internal medicine texts), McWhinney defines the principles and practices of family medicine as a separate and distinct field of practice. His initial sections cover the basis principles and philosophies of family medicine and a later section discusses the approach to the patients with common diseases encountered in practice (these discussions not only address these clinical problems, but each is a workshop for incorporating what it means to be a family physician into everyday practice). The new edition is updated throughout with help from a group of reviewers and a new coauthor, Tom Freeman, who is Chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at McWhinney's institution, the University of Western Ontario.

About this title

Review:

" Dr McWhinney's book was always more than a reference text for a day in the office. It was- and still is-a compass for a career in the specialty.2 It still serves as a blueprint for the house of family medicine, even as we remodel it into the Patient-centered Medical Home of the future." -- FAMILY MEDICINE

About the Author:

Ian R. Mc Whinney is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Western Ontario. Thomas Freeman is Chairman in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Western Ontario.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0195369858
• ISBN 13: 9780195369854
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 472