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2 ONLY FOR SALE IN INDIA, BANGLADESH, SRI LANKA, NEPAL, BHUTAN, AND MYANMAR
AND NOT FOR EXPORT THEREFROM. NOT FOR SALE IN ANY OTHER COUNTRY IN THE WORLD SIXTH EDITION VOLUME 4 edited by John D. Firth Christopher P. Conlon Timothy M. Cox Oxford Textbook of Medicine INTERNATIONAL EDITION

1.1 On being a patient 3

1.2 A young person’s experience of chronic disease

1.3 What patients wish you understood 8

1.4 Why do patients attend and what do they want f

1.5 Medical ethics 20 Mike Parker, Mehrunisha Sule

1.6 Clinical decision- making 26 Timothy E.A. Peto

Contents

Copyright

Foreword

List of abbreviations xxxv

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Preface

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10.1 Environmental medicine, occupational medicine

10.2 Occupational health 1638

10.2.1 Occupational and environmental health 1638

10.2.2 Occupational safety 1652

10.2.3 Aviation medicine 1656

10.2.4 Diving medicine 1664

10.2.5 Noise 1671

10.2.6 Vibration 1673

10.3 Environment and health 1677

10.3.1 Air pollution and health 1677

10.3.2 Heat 1687

10.3.3 Cold 1689

10.3.4 Drowning 1691

10.3.5 Lightning and electrical injuries 1696

10.3.6 Diseases of high terrestrial altitudes 1701

10.3.7 Radiation 1709

10.3.8 Disasters Earthquakes, hurricanes, floods,

10.3.9 Bioterrorism 1718

10.4 Poisoning 1725

10.4.1 Poisoning by drugs and chemicals 1725

10.4.2 Injuries, envenoming, poisoning, and allerg

10.4.3 Poisonous fungi 1817

10.4.4 Poisonous plants 1828

10.5 Podoconiosis (nonfilarial elephantiasis) 1833

11.1 Nutrition Macronutrient metabolism 1839

11.2 Vitamins 1855

11.3 Minerals and trace elements 1871

11.4 Severe malnutrition 1880

11.5 Diseases of affluent societies and the need f

11.6 Obesity 1903

11.7 Artificial nutrition support 1914

12.1 The inborn errors of metabolism General aspec

12.10 Hereditary disorders of oxalate metabolism T

12.11 A physiological approach to acid– base disor

12.12 The acute phase response, hereditary periodi

12.12.1 The acute phase response and C- reactive p

12.12.2 Hereditary periodic fever syndromes 2207

12.12.3 Amyloidosis 2218

12.13 a1- Antitrypsin deficiency and the serpinopa

12.2 Protein- dependent inborn errors of metabolis

12.3 Disorders of carbohydrate metabolism 1985

12.3.1 Glycogen storage diseases 1985 Robin H. Lac

12.3.2 Inborn errors of fructose metabolism 1993 T

12.3.3 Disorders of galactose, pentose, and pyruva

12.4 Disorders of purine and pyrimidine metabolism

12.5 The porphyrias 2032 Timothy M. Cox

12.6 Lipid disorders 2055

12.7 Trace metal disorders 2098

12.7.1 Hereditary haemochromatosis 2098 William J.

12.7.2 Inherited diseases of copper metabolism Wil

12.8 Lysosomal disease 2121

12.9 Disorders of peroxisomal metabolism in adults

13.1 Principles of hormone action 2245 Rob Fowkes,

13.10 Hormonal manifestations of nonendocrine dise

13.11 The pineal gland and melatonin 2553

13.2 Pituitary disorders 2258

13.2.1 Disorders of the anterior pituitary gland 2

13.2.2 Disorders of the posterior pituitary gland

13.3 Thyroid disorders 2284

13.3.1 The thyroid gland and disorders of thyroid

13.3.2 Thyroid cancer 2302

13.4 Parathyroid disorders and diseases altering c

13.5 Adrenal disorders 2331

13.5.1 Disorders of the adrenal cortex 2331 Mark S

13.5.2 Congenital adrenal hyperplasia 2360 Nils P.

13.6 Reproductive disorders 2374