Textbook of Medical Biochemistry (3rd ed.) uploaded by Shakir Khan

This book has a fl avour of its own both, in scope and content, distinctly different from a number of already existing
textbooks on Medical Biochemistry. Author has successfully met the requirements of a student-centred and needbased, innovative curriculum and dovetailed this in right proportion with pertinent aspects of basic, applied and
clinical concepts relevant to Health Sciences. While main concepts of chemical and molecular basis of diseases have
not been lost sight of and the emerging frontiers of recombinant DNA research and genetic engineering have been
given due importance, the student is not burdened with the details linked to and inherent in the present day avalanche
of information. A rather balanced view of facts ranging from molecular to organismal levels has been undertaken. The
fi rst few chapters on basic concepts set the right pace in this direction for the students to follow.
Emphasis is given to the presentation and analysis of clinical cases so that the application of biochemical principles,
including the aberrations in disease, is succinctly brought out. The approach appears to be to “understand biochemistry
through health problems” or better perhaps to “understand health problems through biochemistry”. At the end of
each chapter, questions related to clinical cases which are of immense help to the student in the diagnostic analysis of
medical problems are discussed. The “how and why” of the health problems not only seeks to unravel underlying
basic mechanisms but asking questions and fi nding answers evoke yet another method of active learning rather than
sitting with voluminous books.
I am certain that the book would be found useful as much by the medical undergraduates, as by those in clinical practice
and those appearing for entrance examinations for higher courses.