The Complete Human Body: The Definitive Visual Guide - Hardcover

Roberts, Dr Alice

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 024124045X ISBN 13: 9780241240458

Publisher: DK, 2016

Synopsis

This breathtaking portrait of the human body uses new medical imaging techniques to make incredibly detailed digital illustrations.

The 3-D computer-generated images cover the entire body, region by region and system by system, featuring everything from bones, muscles, and joints to cells and DNA. An extensive section on what goes wrong includes physical and mental health disorders.

The Complete Human Body is the definitive visual guide to human biology and human anatomy, including the development, form, function, and disorders of the human body. Professor Alice Roberts takes you on a detailed tour of how your respiratory system works, to discover your anatomy up-close, and to learn about over 200 diseases and how they afflict the human body. This new edition includes extra detail on the hands, feet, and major joints.

The quality of digital images and level of detail make this book an invaluable study resource for students of human biology and physiology. Or if you are just curious to learn how the body works, this comprehensive guide is for you.

Previous edition ISBN 9781405347495

About this title

Review:

A detailed but accessible atlas of anatomy (n/a BMA News Review (Student Edition) 2010-10-01)

Excellent new anatomy atlas that employs the latest medical and microscopic imaging and 3-D computer-generated artwork to show the form, functions and disorders of the human body (n/a The Bookseller 2010-06-04)

Editor Alice Roberts has compiled a guide with quakities of how an encyclopaedia commissioned by Bill Bryons would read; full of facts laced with whimsical side notes accompanied by outstanding and elegant images (Thushara Goonewardene The Lancet 2010-10-09)

About the Author:

Alice Roberts is a qualified doctor, anatomist, osteoarchaeologist, and anthropologist. Since 2012, Alice has been Professor of Public Engagement with Science at the University of Birmingham. Professor Roberts has presented a number of television programmes, including The Incredible Human Journey, Origins of Us, and Ice Age Giants. She has written a number of popular science books, including DK's Human Anatomy.

About this edition

• Publisher: DK
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 024124045X
• ISBN 13: 9780241240458
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 528