Essential Haematology is established as the most authoritative introduction to the subject for bioscience and medical students, junior doctors, laboratory scientists and nurses. This new edition is beautifully presented, introducing the formation and function of blood cells, and diseases that arise from dysfunction and disruption of these processes. Basic science, diagnostic tests and clinical features and management are all easily explained.
THE introductory text for clinical and laboratory haematology
An authoritative and accessible textbook now fully revised
Beautifully presented - a joy to learn from
Features a new standardized approach to clinical features and management of disease
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Lacks Details, Thorough explanations:
If you are already familiar with hematology and simply need a quick refresher, this is the book for you. However, as a medical student learning some of this material for the first time, I found this book to be lacking the detail and explanations necessary to establish a solid understanding of the subject. There are a couple nice figures, but overall I recommend sticking with a text like Robbins.
Great Book:
I am a medical student in Jamaica. I have found this book to be very detailed for undergraduate studies. I think the book is clear and precise.
Glaring error in text about mast cells:
The first thing I looked at to check on the quality of this book as an overview of hematology was the information about mast cells, a subject I know well. There is little text about these bone marrow-derived cells, but they are said to be basophils that have moved into the tissue. It has been known for at least 8 years that this is not the case, and the hematopoietic lineage of mast cells has been clearly defined for at leat 3 years.
Someone has to write a better Heme book:
This book is average, at best. It is an easy read, but you walk away asking whether you really learned anything new. I ended up using Harrison's to study heme because I found this book very inadequate.
