The Biology of Disease is an introductory level text on the biological principles of human disease. The book is aimed at medical students and students on degree courses in biomedical science. The book fuses the biological (physiological and biochemical) processes which underly the clinical manifestations of disease. As such, it brings together material which is conventionally dealt with by several books. The book does, therefore, integrate basic science and clinical medicine in a very novel way. The clinical setting is further emphasised by the inclusion of detailed case studies at the end of each section. These are written in non-technical