Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: PART I -- ANATOMICAL PATHOLOGY: AN EVOLVING AND INTEGRATING DISCIPLINE -- 1. The Origin and Nature of Pathology -- 2. Becoming a Pathologist -- 3. Laboratory Procedures and Management -- 4. The Interface between Pathology and Clinical Medicine -- 5. The Role of Autopsy -- 6. Educational Role of Pathology -- 7. Pathology and Research -- 8. The Age of Economic Realism -- 9. Observing and Describing Disease -- PART II -- INJURY, INFLAMMATION AND IMMUNITY -- 10. Inflammation: Historical Perspectives -- 11. The Injured Cell -- 12. Defences against Infection -- 13. Tissue Responses to Infection and Injury -- 14. Inflammation and the Immune System -- 15. The Diagnosis of Inflammation: A Pathologist's Perspective -- 16. Disorders of Growth and Differentiation -- PART III -- BLOOD, TUBES, FLUIDS AND FLOW -- 17. Oedema, Haemorrhage and Thrombosis -- 18. Embolism, Ischaemia, Infarction and Shock -- 19. Atherosclerosis, Arteriolosclerosis and Vasculitis -- PART IV -- NEOPLASIA -- 20. The Nature and Cause of Cancer: Historical Overview -- 21. Visual Hallmarks of Cancer -- 22. The Many Faces of Neoplasia -- 23. Cancer: A Genetic Disease -- 24. Clonality, Growth and Spread of Cancer -- 25. Epithelial Precancerous and Borderline Lesions: Diagnosis and Screening -- 26. The Management of Cancer: A Pathologist's Perspective -- PART V -- MESSENGERS, METABOLISM, MULTISYSTEM AND MECHANICAL DISEASE -- 27. Genetic Disorders -- 28. Developmental Disorders -- 29. The Endocrine System: Solid and Diffuse -- 30. Tumour Immunity, Graft versus Host Disease and Autoimmune Disease -- 31. Environmental, latrogenic and Nutritional Disease -- 32. Mechanical Disease -- 33. End Stage Disease -- Glossary -- Index.

All Ages.