Kumar & Clark's Clinical Medicine 8th edition builds on the prize-winning formula that won the BMA Book Awards Medicine Category First Prize in 2010 and 2006.

'This book is comprehensive, student friendly (if still intimidating in size!) and covers such a vast breadth of knowledge. It still remains the primary 'must-have' textbook of any budding doctor, or qualified one at that. This book is stunning in its breadth and in its ease-of-use. It still remains as the 'gold standard' thorough guide to clinical medicine its forefathers were.' BMA Judges 2010

New to this edition:
- New chapter on palliative medicine.
- Six times the number of margin clinical photos.
- New echocardiography images.
- Double the number of dermatological images; including all the major lesion morphologies covered in a single page.
- 16 new authors.
- New sections on protein synthesis, energy production and stem cells.
- New members of the International Advisory Board from India, South Africa, Poland, and the Middle East.
- Seven new online chapters from the International Advisory Board.

Key online features of the new edition:
- 30 extra short chapters online, written by members of the International
- Advisory Board to cover key international issues, such as malaria, envenoming and HIV.
- Animations of selected procedures (lumbar puncture, central venous and bladder catheterization, arterial cannulation, etc).
- Access to Drake's Interactive Surface Anatomy.
- Heart and lung sounds.
- One year's access to the new edition of Goldman's Cecil Medicine online – 2704 more pages of medical reference.