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| Study Guide to Accompany The Human Body in Health & Disease | 
 enlarge | Authors: Gary A. Thibodeau, Linda Swisher
Publisher: Mosby
Category: Book
List Price: $25.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 325280
Media: Paperback
Edition: 4
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 8.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 0323036449
Dewey Decimal Number: 616
EAN: 9780323036443
ASIN: 0323036449
Publication Date: April 22, 2005
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Study Guide to Accompany The Human Body in Health & Disease provides students with additional self-study aids, including chapter overviews, topic reviews, application and labeling exercises, as well as answers to the questions in the Study Guide.
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 Best of the 3 in my course March 17, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I had to buy three A&P textbooks for a class I'm taking. This one is by far the best. Easy to understand, chock full of great artwork, and a nice balance between normal functioning (the biggest focus by far) versus common diseases for each system of the body (usually to highlight why normal functioning is so important). My CD was broken, so I can only use the online study tools, and they are helpful. Nice job!
massage school book March 13, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book is a must have for the massage student. The information is put together in an easy to read format and the study aid is excellent for review and testing.
 Not the best November 23, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I had to buy this book as a text for a class I'm taking for my degree in Medical Transcription. I came into this class with zero background in Anatomy and physiology. There are some things I like about this book and some I don't.
First, this book is jammed full of interesting information. I love the way it breaks down the different body systems and explains them. I also thought the diagrams were very well done and very easy to understand.
Now for the negative. My biggest complaint is that it wasn't always easy to determine what to write down. I wish they would have bolded or italicized key terms. At times, I thought the writing got a little technical and confusing sometimes. Especially the chapter on the nervous system.
Also, I think this text tends to be very wordy. They take a whole paragraph to say something that could easily be said in a couple sentences.
But overall, I think this is a good book for someone who has little or no experience in anatomy and physiology.
 A good summer read. May 27, 2006
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
First, let me explain myself a little so that you may know where I am coming from. I am a pre-med biology major who will be a senior for the fall '06 term. I have never had any A&P class whatsoever because the biology department's requirements...well, that is another story. I bought this book because it is not too detailed to lose sight of the big picture but just detailed enough to explain pretty much all the A&P that will be on the MCAT. Of course, this book has tons of stuff that is NOT tested on the MCAT, but I have the examkracker books and I use this book for the (very) few times examkrackers does a poor job explaining things. It's also always good to read the same thing from various sources because the information is much easier to retain that way. I like the pathology that is intermixed throughout the entire book, and the outline pages at the end of each chapter are nice as well as the "case studies" that you are presented with. All in all, this book would be 5 stars for its high yield, one semester A&P (and some pathology) content, but I had to take off one star for the abysmal section on nutrition and metabolism. Glycolysis, CAC, and ETC are barely mentioned. The one or two figures are childish (the others are really good). I may be biased though because I just got out of biochemistry and metabolism was beaten into my brain. Still, I can recommend this to those who want a cheap, basic A&P book to supplement their MCAT Biology studying. The pathology stuff is just bonus and fun to read as sort of a segway into my senior year and my pathology class.
The Human Body in Health and Disease March 22, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The book uses in depth, even microscopic scientific detail to explain human anatomy and human body functions, and does so in an ultra clear manner, regularly repeating in different words what is most important to understand. Repetition has and always will be the best way to learn. I had to wonder how the text might compare to textbooks used on college and university campuses, since I am using the book simply for an online certification, but for now the new knowledge is a head full for me, and probably will be for some time to come. It is very fun to know so much now about all the parts of the brain and the body, and about how all of our bodies function, subjects I had not previously studied in spite of much higher education.
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