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Memmler’s The Human Body in Health and Disease
Authors: Barbara Janson Cohen, Kerry L. HullOVERVIEW
Memmler’s The Human Body in Health and Disease, Fourteenth Edition is a textbook for introductory-level allied health and nursing students who need a basic understanding of anatomy and physiology, the interrelationships between structure and function, and the effects of disease on body systems. The features and content specifically meet the needs of those who may be starting their health career preparation with little or no science background. The Fourteenth Edition has been revised and updated where needed to improve organization of the material and to reflect current scientific thought.
Each new print copy of Memmler’s The Human Body in Health & Disease, Enhanced 14th Edition includes Navigate 2 Premier Access!
Features and Benefits
- Includes The Body Visable, a series of illustrations of the major body systems described in the text with labeled transparent overlays
- Retains an extensive art program with updated and new figures
- A main Glossary defines all the chapter’s key terms and an addition Glossary of Word Parts is a reference tool that teaches basic medical and anatomic terminology and helps students learn to recognize unfamiliar terms
- Appendices include a variety of supplementary information that students will find useful as they work with the text, including a new photographic Dissection Atlas, answers to the Chapter Checkpoint questions, Casepoint questions, and Zooming In illustration questions that are found in every chapter
- Every chapter contains pedagogy that has been designed with the health professions and nursing student in mind
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Unit I The Body as a Whole
- Chapter 1 Organization of the Human Body
- Chapter 2 Chemistry, Matter, and Life
- Chapter 3 Cells and Their Functions
- Chapter 4 Tissues, Glands, and Membranes
- Unit II Disease and the First Line of Defence
- Chapter 5 Disease and Disease-Producing Organisms
- Chapter 6 The Integumentary System
- Unit III Movement and Support
- Chapter 7 The Skeletal System
- Chapter 8 The Muscular System
- Unit IV Coordination and Control
- Chapter 9 The Nervous System: The Spinal Cord and Spinal Nerves
- Chapter 10 The Nervous System: The Brain and Cranial Nerves
- Chapter 11 The Sensory System
- Chapter 12 The Endocrine System: Glands and Hormones
- Unit V Circulation and Body Defence
- Chapter 13 The Blood
- Chapter 14 The Heart and Heart Disease
- Chapter 15 Blood Vessels and Blood Circulation
- Chapter 16 The Lymphatic System and Lymphatic Circulation
- Chapter 17 Immunity
- Unit VI Energy: Supply and Use
- Chapter 18 The Respiratory System
- Chapter 19 The Digestive System
- Chapter 20 Metabolism, Nutrition, and Body Temperature
- Chapter 21 The Urinary System
- Chapter 22 Body Fluids
- Unit VII Perpetuation of Life
- Chapter 23 The Male and Female Reproductive Systems
- Chapter 24 Development and Birth
- Chapter 25 Heredity and Hereditary Diseases
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