The Human Body in Health & Disease, 8th Edition, has been fully updated and edited to make it easier to grasp how the body functions under normal circumstances as well as when things change. Its more than 500 full-color pictures, its distinct Clear View of the Human Body transparency, and its simple writing style help you stay focused on the fundamentals of anatomy, physiology, and pathology. Connect It! with additional online content, concept maps with flow charts to clarify difficult subjects, chapter objectives, and active learning portions are some of the key elements. This book, written by renowned educator Kevin Patton, explains A&P in a way that helps you recognize and comprehend what matters.
More than 500 full-color pictures and illustrations bring complex ideas to life and showcase the most recent scientific discoveries. A cohesive color scheme unites the exquisitely created pictures, which depict a range of human identities.
“Chunked” content is combined with a conversational writing style to make it simple to read and understand.
Unusual! Color backgrounds are used in creative page design to arrange content in a way that is more hospitable, approachable, and inspiring to improve learning.
Unusual! Clear View of the Human Body, a full-color, semi-transparent image, allows for the on-demand virtual dissection of average male and female human bodies along multiple body planes. With the help of the transparencies on these 22-page inserts, you may reveal the layers of the body from anterior to posterior and posterior to anterior.
To help you become comfortable with new and difficult terminology, Language of Science/Language of Medicine word lists at the beginning of each chapter include key terms, pronunciations, and word-part translations.
Animated Modern animations on the companion Evolve website are linked directly throughout the text to offer dynamic visual explanations of important themes.
In addition to giving you clear examples of how to create your own concept maps, Active Concept Maps offers animated, narrated walkthroughs of concept maps to help make the text narrative more understandable.
