STM publisher Elsevier has announced that two of its medical titles won first prize in their respective categories at the annual BMA Medical Book Competition ceremony in London. An additional 22 Elsevier books were highly commended. The Awards were presented by Professor Averil Mansfield, Immediate Past President BMA and Chairman of the BMA Board of Science.
The winning medical titles from Elsevier are: Color Atlas of Clinical Hematology, 4th edition by A. Victor Hoffbrand, John E. Pettit, and Paresh Vyas; and Kumar & Clark's Clinical Medicine, 7th edition by Parveen Kumar and Michael Clark.
The Color Atlas of Clinical Hematology, 4th edition, won the first prize in the BMA Internal Medicine category. The title is regarded as one of the best hematology atlases on the market. Purchasers of the text are also given access to the online content, which includes a vast image bank of 2,700 images, with 2,100 in full colour.
Kumar & Clark's Clinical Medicine, 7th edition, won first prize in the BMA Medicine category. This text is a thoroughly updated, reworked and revised new edition of the first-prize winner in the Medicine category of 2006.
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