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Abstract

In addition to the book, the project included several other educational tools such as sets of microscopic slides and kodachromes, and scholarships to teachers of pathology to be trained in any of the four collaborative centers.The project was conceived to prepare qualified and updated teachers of pathology to attend the great demand for these professionals since General Pathology was considered by the Federal Education Council as a mandatory disciplin in the curriculum of all health related courses in Brazil, including, among others, medicine, veterinary medicine, dentistry, nursing, nutrition, phonoaudiology, biomedicine.After the first edition, two new editions were released, the latest in 1992. Since the field of General Pathology has accumulated an enormous amount of new information and the book was very well received by students and teachers, and was sold out, we thought that was time for a new edition.This 4th edition has incorporated most of the new knowledge available on the field and has maintained the same essential features of the book, namely clearness, accessibility and low price.The chapters, written by 17 collaborators, are as follows: The normal cell; Relationship between cellular physiology and pathology,