This small volume is intended to provide the essential core knowledge required to assess patients with possible disorders of the blood, organise relevant investigations and initiate therapy where necessary. By reducing extraneous information as much as possible, and presenting key information for each topic, a basic understanding of the pathophysiology is provided and this, we hope, will stimulate readers to follow this up by consulting the larger haematology textbooks.

Clinical Dermatologyis now quarter of a century old, and this fifth edition is the first not to include any of the original authors. Hamish Hunter is one of the two British authors and has an interest in inflammatory dermatoses and the brain–skin axis. Margaret Mann has joined the team as our American author bringing particular expertise in dermatologic surgery and cosmetic dermatology. While the authors may have changed, we hope that the book retains its original feel as an approachable and useful text to the practicing clinician, but underpinned by the science behind the disease. As always we have striven to make the text enjoyable and useful to a wide audience, whether medical students, family doctors or neophyte dermatologists.

The principal aim of this book is to provide an overview of the areas of study and skill needed by an integrative therapist, and to offer a framework for assessing therapeutic effectiveness in the training in any school or combination of schools. What we hope to convey in this book is not holy writ for an integrative model, but a framework for thinking about therapy that can include theories and ways of working from several different schools

In this textbook you will learn about behavior modification, the principles and procedures used to understand and change human behavior. Behavior modification procedures come in many forms. Consider the following examples.

These revisions included additions and subtractions wherever necessary, to make the text more precise and the topics more relevant to the needs of both the student and the practitioner. New sections and/or discussions were added to cover subjects that have received the most attention in the past few years, for example, Image-Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT), Volumetric-Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT), Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy (SBRT), and Failure Mode Event Analysis (FMEA) approach to quality assurance. A new chapter has been added to cover SBRT in greater detail. New color illustrations have also been added throughout to update the book’s usefulness. A website with full text and an image bank accompany the book for greater convenience in studying and teaching