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Offering a student-friendly writing style, this text presents a body systems approach with a strong emphasis on vocabulary and basic anatomy and physiology concepts, as well as the basic mechanisms of disease and pathologic conditions associated with each body system. This comprehensive text is dominated by two unifying themes: the complementarity of structure and function and homeostasis. The integrating principle of homeostasis is used to show how “normal” structure and function is achieved and maintained. Failures of homeostasis are shown as basic mechanisms of disease. The reader is drawn into the subject by superior illustrations, including cadaver dissections, and other student-friendly features.
Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Chapter 1 An Introduction to the Structure and Function of the Body
- Chapter 2 Chemistry of Life
- Chapter 3 Cells and Tissue
- Chapter 4 Organ Systems of the Body
- Chapter 5 Mechanisms of Disease
- Chapter 6 The Integumentary System and Body Membranes
- Chapter 7 The Skeletal System
- Chapter 8 The Muscular System
- Chapter 9 The Nervous System
- Chapter 10 The Senses
- Chapter 11 The Endocrine System
- Chapter 12 Blood
- Chapter 13 The Heart and Heart Disease
- Chapter 14 The Circulation of the Blood
- Chapter 15 The Lympatic System and Immunity
- Chapter 16 The Respiratory System
- Chapter 17 The Digestive System
- Chapter 18 Nutrition and Metabolism
- Chapter 19 The Urinary System
- Chapter 20 Fluid and Electrolyte Balance
- Chapter 21 Acid-Base Balance
- Chapter 22 The Reproductive Systems
- Chapter 23 Growth and Development
- Chapter 24 Genetics and Genetic Diseases
- Back Matter
