As readers approach this Eighth edition, they will immediately
appreciate our radical change in book design, with vibrant cover art and pages
in full color to enhance visual appeal and illustration clarity. Despite growth
in knowledge, we have beseeched authors to adhere to strictly assigned length
limitations and to emphasize literature published since 1990, since older
references are readily available in cited reviews and previous editions. As a
result, overall book length is less than the previous edition, despite growing
from 66 to 70 chapters. To more effectively integrate the ever-enlarging
knowledge base in renal physiology, pathophysiology, clinical diagnosis and
therapeutics, we have also initiated a radical reorganization of the textbook
into 12 sections, each distinguished by separate color code. This is the
first such reorganization since publication of the First edition in 1976. Of the
70 chapters, one-fourth are entirely new titles, one-fourth have
been completely revised by newly invited authors and for the remaining
half each chapter has undergone major updates and revisions, often with
addition of new co-authors. Through the collective efforts of our very able
contributors, the intellectual and practical value of this new edition of
Brenner and Rector's The Kidney has not only been continued but further
strengthened. There are now 161 contributors to the Eighth Edition (compared to
151 in the Seventh Edition), and 73 of these 161 (over 40%) are new to this
edition.
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