Family Medicine: Principles and Practice - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0387965807 ISBN 13: 9780387965802

Publisher: Springer, 1988

Synopsis

New material in a new format is contained in this third edition of Family Medicine. The comprehensive text nevertheless remains true to the goal of previous editions in offering a scientific approach to health and illness within the context of the family. Using up-to-date clinical material, the book demonstrates how the family physician may provide comprehensive health care to persons of all ages. The first part of Family Medicine discusses such topics as the conceptual basis of family as discipline and specialty, problem differentiation, family-centered health care, longitudinal care, clinical reasoning, and resource management. The second part explores both problems related to organs and systems and problems related to the person, family and community, including: pregnancy, care of infants, children, adolescents, and the elderly; behavioral and psychiatric problems; emergency and critical care; sports medicine; alcoholism and substance misuse; environmental health; and neoplastic and infectious diseases. Family Medicine, with its greatly expanded in-depth coverage of the most commonly encountered clinical core problems and procedures in family medicine, continues to be a textbook written and edited by family physicians for family physicians.

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Review

From the reviews of the sixth edition:

"[T]he sixth edition of this comprehensive book... covers the breadth and diversity of family practice [and] continues its strong tradition of a clinically oriented approach directed towards front line family practitioners. This work achieves the goal of being a complete reference on family medicine as well as any other book available [and] delivers its content in a fashion that is user-friendly for all levels of clinical practice.

The book once again reviews the basic principles of family practice, with emphasis on prevention and wellness. Sections on specific disease entities are comprehensive and logically constructed. Tables and graphs are used extensively and are strategically placed to facilitate learning and recall. Added chapters on Bioterrorism and alternative medicine are most welcome and testify to the book's timeliness. This sixth edition is without question the strongest, most comprehensive version yet." (DOODY'S REVIEW)

"This work achieves the goal of being a complete reference on family medicine ... . the book delivers its content in a fashion that is user-friendly for all levels of clinical practice. ... Tables and graphs are used extensively and are strategically placed to facilitate learning and recall. Added chapters on bioterrorism and alternative medicine are most welcome and testify to the book’s timeliness. ... This sixth edition is without question the strongest, most comprehensive version yet." (Donald R. Frey, www.doody.com, February, 2004)

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0387965807
• ISBN 13: 9780387965802
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 677
• Editor: Buckingham John L., Donatelle E.P., Johnson Thomas A. Jr., Scherger Joseph E., Taylor Robert