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Our
Marvelous Bodies
Price: $39.95
Subtitle:
An Introduction to the
Physiology of Human Health
Author:
Gary F. Merrill
Subject:
Health and Medicine
Cloth
ISBN 978-0-8135-4281-2
Pages:
240 pages, 22 illustrations, 24
tables
Publication Date:
May 2008
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Chapter 1
Praise
for Our Marvelous Bodies
"Using marvelous examples of everyday experience, Merrill effectively illustrates and explains many complex physiological processes. This blending of basic human biology with real-life stories greatly helps us to understand our own bodies - as patients, students, or as health care professionals."—Richard A. Nyhof, Professor of Biology, Calvin College
“Merrill's approach to science instruction is a unique one. I
found it captivating."
—Byron Cryer, University of Texas Southwestern Medical
School
Description:
Our Marvelous Bodies
offers a unique perspective on the structure, function,
and care of the major systems of the human body. Unlike
other texts that use a strictly scientific approach,
physiologist Gary F. Merrill relays medical facts
alongside personal stories that help students relate to
and apply the information.
Readers learn the basics
of feedback control systems, homeostasis, and
physiological gradients. These principles apply to an
understanding of the body's functioning under optimal,
healthy conditions, and they provide insight into states
of acute and chronic illness. Separate chapters are
devoted to each of the body's systems in detail:
nervous, endocrine, cardiovascular, respiratory, renal,
gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal, reproductive, and
immune. Through a series of real-life examples, the book
also shows the importance of maintaining careful medical
records for health care professionals, scientists, and
patients alike.
About the Author:
Gary F. Merrill is
a professor of cell biology and neuroscience in the
Division of Life Sciences at Rutgers University.
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