Case Studies in Immunology: A Clinical Companion
Case Studies in Immunology: A Clinical Companion Books
Product Description
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Recapitulates major topics of immunology as background to a selection of real clinical cases serving to reinforce and extend the basic science. Illustrates the importance of an understanding of immunology in diagnosis and therapy. Five new cases have been added to this edition. Previous edition: c1999. Softcover.
Buy Cheap Case Studies in Immunology: A Clinical Companion Online
Related posts:
Guys, this book is very poorly organized and the previous reviewer either is bribed by the authors or he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. This, by far, is the WORST textbook I’ve seen in my 5 years of college career. Look I am not bitter and I am a excellent student with a 3.9 GPA.
I will back up my reasons why this book is terrible. The illustrations do not come with legends or marks. Readers are suppoed to guess what the white circle, black squares, green circles stand for. Plus the authors only give a very sketchy introduction to the diseases and they don’t clarifies anything well enough for you to know the questions. The answers to the discussion questions do not make sense and most of the time not relevant to the questions at all.
If your instructor is requiring you to buy this text, he/she is doing you a MAJOR disservice… question the instructor to reconsider the adoptation of any casebook, otherwise drop the course.
Rating: 1 / 5
Not what I expected. It was not written the way other “case” oriented texts are in my attitude.
Rating: 2 / 5
it is really an brilliant book with it’s illustrations and the questions at the end of each case.
Rating: 5 / 5
My use of this book is probably a small different from most of the other reviewers here. My medical school immunology course used a different book (Lippincott’s Immunology, which is passable); a year later, even as studying for my USMLE step 1, I didn’t want to waste time re-reading the basics in a textbook (i.e. I didn’t need to read a 20-page chapter about the difference between innate and adaptive immunity). I also wasn’t satisfied with the level of detail in my review books, which were fine for physiology but very weak in describing genetic immunodeficiency syndromes.
That’s the benefit of this book– the basics are there, but are integrated into cases alongside more “advanced” concepts. If you already have a excellent grasp on basic immunology (adaptive vs. innate, B vs. T, CD4 vs. CD8, Th1 vs. Th2), this is a much simpler way to learn the complexities of immunodeficiency syndromes or autoimmune diseases (most of the cases in this book are one or the other). As such, I would certainly urge using this book for a boards review of immunology (if you can emergency a day or two from your review schedule to read it– it’s about 300 pages). It covers ALL the relevant immunology– I can’t presume being surprised by an immuno question on test day if you know what’s in here.
That said, I would NOT urge this book as a starting top for learning immunology (and based on some of the other reviews here, that is unfortunately how it has occasionally been used). This was never meant to be a stand-lonely immunology text, and I honestly can’t presume why it would be assigned as the text for an undergraduate introductory course. There are several excellent introductory immunology books out there– the one I used is Sompayrac’s “How the Immune System Works,” but you have lots of choices. Once you have the basics, though, this book is brilliant for making the jump to clinical immunology.
Rating: 5 / 5
Fantastic Companion text for any immunology course. Shows clinically relevant cases and exemplifies how and why certain themes apply to medicine.
Rating: 5 / 5