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The cell as a unit of health and disease / Richard N. Mitchell -- Cellular responses to stress and toxic insults: adaptation, injury, and death -- Inflammation and repair -- Hemodynamic disorders, thromboembolic disease, and shock -- Genetic disorders -- Diseases of the immune system -- Neoplasia -- Infectious diseases / Alexander J. McAdam, Danny A. Milner and Arlene H. Sharpe -- Environmental and nutritional diseases -- Diseases of infancy and childhood / Anirban Maitra -- Blood vessels / Richard N. Mitchell -- The heart / Frederick J. Schoen and Richard N. Mitchell -- Diseases of white blood cells, lymph nodes, spleen, and thymus -- Red blood cell and bleeding disorders -- The lung / Aliya N. Husain -- Head and neck / Mark W. Lingen -- The gastrointestional tract / Jerrold R. Turner -- Liver and gallbladder / Neil D. Theise -- The pancreas / Ralph H. Hruban and Christine A. Iacobuzio-Donahue -- The kidney / Charles E. Alpers and Anthony Chang -- The lower urinary tract and male genital system / Jonathan I. Epstein and Tamara L. Lotan -- The female genital tract / Lora Hedrick and Edyta C. Pirog -- The breast / Susan C. Lester -- The endocrine system / Anirban Maitra -- The skin / Alexander J.F. Lazar and George F. Murphy -- Bones, joints, and soft tissue tumors / Andrew Horvai -- Peripheral nerves and skeletal muscles / Peter Pytel and Douglas C. Anthony -- The central nervous system / Matthew P. Frosch, Douglas C. Anthony and Umberto De Girolami -- The eye / Robert Folberg

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