"The book was not intended as a reference tome but as an easily read text from which to learn about the blood diseases -their pathogenesis, clinical and laboratory features, relevant diagnostic tests, treatment and prognosis. A suggested reading list was given at the end of each chapter but references in the text were avoided. The title Postgraduate Haematology was adopted for the second and subsequent editions, published by William Heinemann, Butterworth Heinemann, Arnold, Oxford University Press, Blackwell and now Wiley-Blackwell"-- Provided by publisher.