An Introduction to General Pathology

Understanding pathology; infection - man and his symbiotes; the stabilization and breakdown of symbiosis between man and microbes; microbial factors in symbiosis and disease; phagocytosis; immunity, antibodies and complement; the formation of antibodies; immunodeficiency and AIDS; hypersensitivity; auto-immune disease; inflammation; the systemic reponse to injury - bone marrow, fever, plasma proteins, endocrine and metabolic, regulation; chronic inflammation; healing and repair; atheroma; thrombosis and clotting; embolisma nd infarction; oedema; failure of body systems; cell degeneration, dysfunction and death; dysfunction of cells of the blood; nutritional pathology; pathology caused by ionizing radiation; ageing; congenital and inherited disease; genetically determined disease; chronosomal abnormalities; congenital and inherited disease; genetically determined dissease; chromosomal abnormalities; congential malformations, polygenic inheritance and fetal environment; the HLA system, disease and transplantation; gout, diabetes and heredity; hypertrophy, hyperplasia and atrophy; neoplasia; the properties of cancer cells; oncogenesis; genetic information and cancer; viruses and cancer; growth factors, hormones and cancer; chemicals, radiation, environmental factors and cancer; immune mechanisms and cancer; epidemiology of cancer; psychosocial factors in pathology.