Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced that Roitt's Essential Immunology, 12th Edition, has won the British Medical Association (BMA) Book of the Year Award. The BMA Medical Book Awards aim to encourage and reward excellence in medical publishing. Prizes are awarded in 21 categories, with the overall Book of the Year selected from the category winners.
Chosen from over 700 published titles, Roitt's Essential Immunology was commended as an excellent example of a modern textbook. The book also won first prize in the Basic and Clinical Sciences section of the awards.
Sherlock's Diseases of the Liver and Biliary System, also in its 12th edition, won first prize in the Internal Medicine section as did The Concise Guide to Pediatric Arrhythmias in the Cardiology section.
Fourteen other Wiley titles were also highly commended in the awards.
