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.
Published Date:
13/08/2009
Publisher:
Oxford University Press Inc
Format:
Paperback / softback
Dimensions:
155 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm