Human Physiology: An Integrated Approach, Media Update: United States Edition - Hardcover

Silverthorn, Dee Unglaub

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0321550889 ISBN 13: 9780321550880

Publisher: Pearson, 2008

Synopsis

Human Physiology: An Integrated Approach broke ground with its thorough coverage of molecular physiology seamlessly integrated into a traditional homeostasis-based systems approach. The new Fourth Edition, Media Update provides access to an expanded media package.

 

The Fourth Edition, Media Update is automatically packaged with the newInteractive Physiology® (IP) 10-System Suite CD-ROM, and access to the revised companion website, which includes all the great resources from the Fourth Edition website plus:

 

• Interactive Physiology with gradable quizzes, featuring a new module on the Immune System
• PhysioEx 8.0 with gradable quizzes
• The Get Ready for A&P Media Update
• New interactive concept maps
• Three new case studies and updates to the existing case studies (including a new interface)

About this title

About the Author:

Dee Silverthorn has been teaching at the University of Texas since 1986 where she lectures and coordinates student laboratories in physiology, and instructs graduate students in a course on developing teaching skills in the life sciences. Her innovative teaching has been recognized with numerous local and national awards, including the American Physiological Society's Arthur C. Guyton Physiology Educator of the Year and Claude Bernard Distinguished Lectureship, and the University of Texas Marilla D. Svinicki Burnt Orange Apple Award, Texas Excellence Teaching Award, and College of Natural Sciences Teaching Excellence Award. Her textbook also received the Robert W. Hamilton Author Award for best textbook published by a University of Texas faculty member. "Dr. Dee" studied biology and art as an undergraduate at Newcomb College and went onto earn a Ph.D. in marine science from the University of South Carolina. She began her career in the Physiology Department of the Medical University of South Carolina and spent several years at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston before coming to Austin. Her research interest is epithelial transport, and work in her laboratory currently focuses on transport properties of the chick allantoic membrane. She is past chair of the Teaching Section of the American Physiological Society and just completed six years as editor-in-chief of Advances in Physiology Education. Her physiology education outreach extends to the international level and she has organized workshops and symposia in countries around the world.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0321550889
• ISBN 13: 9780321550880
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 816