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• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• PART 1 Disease, health and medicine
• Introduction: Disease, health and medicine
• Chapter 1: What causes disease?
• Chapter 2: What are the common mechanisms of disease?
• PART 2 Defence against disease
• Introduction: The role of epidemiology in disease
• Chapter 3: The body’s response to infection
• Chapter 4: The acute inflammatory response
• Chapter 5: Healing and repair, chronic and granulomatous inflammation
• Chapter 6: Chronic inflammation and the adaptive immune response
• Part 3 Features of cardiovascular disorders
• Introduction: Features of cardiovascular disorders
• Chapter 7: Vascular occlusion and thrombosis
• Chapter 8: Atherosclerosis and hypertension
• Chapter 9: Circulatory failure
• Part 4 Cell growth and its disorders
• Introduction: A brief history of cancer
• Chapter 10: Benign growth disorders
• Chapter 11: Malignant neoplasms
• Chapter 12: What causes cancer?
• Chapter 13: Molecular genetics of cancer
• Chapter 14: The behaviour of tumours
• Chapter 15: The clinical effects of tumours
• Epilogue
• Index