Dermatology in General Medicine

TLDR

The textbook’s fourth edition reflects dermatology’s growth over the past half century, its expanding interdisciplinary collaboration, and the flourishing of underlying bioscience. The volume weighs 20 pounds, spans nearly 3,000 pages, and features integrated color photographs and an enhanced index. The authors present the edition as a masterpiece, showcasing renewed enthusiasm through extensive revisions, new concepts, and up-to-date references.

Abstract

After four worthy editions, 10 000 pages, and 22 years of hard labor building an elegant textbook, Thomas Fitzpatrick and his coworkers can celebrate. This fourth edition is their masterpiece. It weighs a record 20 pounds, is nearly 3000 pages long, and has elegant new integrated color photographs and, at long last, an enhanced index. Most important, the authors show renewed enthusiasm for their job with extensive revisions, new concepts, and numerous up-to-date references. This famous textbook has developed in parallel with the blossoming of dermatology over the last half century. As dermatologists seldom did before, today they share complex and important concerns with biochemists, microbiologists, immunologists, oncologists, surgeons, pathologists, and physicists. The specialty continues to succeed, as this book demonstrates, because the underpinning bioscience is flourishing.