The second edition (1987) is cited in Brandon-Hill . A textbook that balances a discussion of basic principles with the details of diagnosis and management of disease entities, for clinical endocrinologists as well as research-oriented scholars and trainees in endocrinology. This edition includes extensively revised or rewritten chapters, as well as newly added chapters on hormones and aging, and on hormones and athletic performance. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Part I: General Endocrinology.Introduction to the Endocrine System.The
Clinical Manifestations of Endocrine Disease.Gene Expression and Recombinant
DNA in Endocrinology and Metabolism.Biosynthesis, Secretion, and Metabolism
of Hormones.Molecular Mechanisms of Hormone Action: Control of Target Cell
Function by Peptide, Steroid, and Thyroid Hormones.Hormone Assays.Part II:
Neuroendocrinology and the Pituitary.Neuroendocrine Physiology and
Disease.Diseases of the Anterior Pituitary.Posterior Pituitary.Part III:
Thyroid Disease.The Thyroid: Physiology, Hyperthyroidism, Hypothyroidism, and
the Painful Thyroid.The Thyroid: Nodules and Neoplasia.Part IV: Adrenal
Disease.The Adrenal Cortex.Diseases of the Sympathochromaffin System.The
Endocrinology of Hypertension.Glucocorticoid Therapy.Part V: Gonadal
Disease.The Testis.The Ovary: Basic Principles and Concepts.A: Physiology.B:
Clinical.Sexual Differentiation.Part VI: Fuel Metabolism.The Endocrine
Pancreas: Diabetes Mellitus.Hypoglycemia.The Obesities.Disorders of Lipid
Metabolism.Part VII: Calcium and Bone Metabolism.Mineral Metabolism.Metabolic
Bone Disease.Nephrolithiasis.Part VIII: Miscellaneous Disorders.Disorders of
Growth and Development.Gastrointestinal Hormones and Carcinoid Tumors and
Syndrome.Multiglandular Endocrine Disorders.Ectopic Hormone
Production.Hormone-Responsive Tumors.Prostaglandins, Kallikreins and Kinins,
and Bartter's Syndrome.Endocrinology of Aging.Endocrinology of Behaviour and
Psychiatric Disorders.Hormones and Athletic Performance.
Philip Felig, MD (affiliated with Lennox Hill Hospital) is probably the number one endocrinologist in New York and a world authority. The fact that he is in clinical practice is actually the strength of the book.
