Postgraduate Medical Science

This important series is based on the successful and internationally well-regarded specialist training programme at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in London. Each volume provides an integrated and self-contained account of a key area of medical science, developed in conjunction with the course organisers and including contributions from specially invited authorities.The aim of the series is to provide biomedical and clinical scientists with a reliable introduction to the theory and to the technical applications for each topic.The volumes will be a valuable resource and guide for trainees in the medical and biomedical sciences, and for laboratory-based scientists.