Vinay Kumar
Abul K. Abbas
Jon C. Aster

2018

The tenth edition is an important milestone in the life of a textbook. This occasion is a propitious time to look back on the origins of Basic Pathology, which are summed up best by quoting Stanley Robbins from the preface of the first edition (1971): “Of books as well as men, it may be observed that fat ones contain thin ones struggling to get out.