Encyclopedia of Respiratory Medicine, Second Edition, Six Volume Set explores the key processes of lung diseases and their diagnosis and management. The book dissects the molecular and cellular biology, physiology and immunology that underpin normal lung function, along with the aberrations that occur in respiratory diseases, from common disorders such as asthma and COPD to rarer lung diseases such as cystic fibrosis, interstitial lung diseases and pulmonary hypertension. Written in at a time when the globe is in the grip of respiratory pandemic, lung disease has never been so prominent in the public and political conscious. This new edition will provide new researchers in respiratory medicine with a solid foundation in unfamiliar topics and will update more experienced researchers seeking to step outside their core areas of research to put their work into a broader context.

Included in this book are interviews and narratives from four women who survived the Japanese internment camps in the Philippines: Margaret Sams, Sascha Jean Jansen, Jane Wills, and Karen Kerns Lewis. There are many books available on the intense, often harrowing, sometimes terrible experiences during World War II. Lives were lost, twisted turned around and dramatically changed. In offering this book, there aim is to awaken a spark of understanding or there common heritage.