Human Physiology: An Integrated Approach helps you construct for yourself a global view of the body, its systems, and the many processes that keep the systems working. Moving beyond straight memorization, it encourages you to develop skills in analyzing, synthesizing and evaluating information. The author builds on her active learning instruction style and integrates big picture themes with the most current cellular and molecular physiology topics.
The 9th Edition extensively revises and increases coverage of the immune system in light of the global SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. It focuses more heavily on the Core Concepts of Physiology organized in the book's 4 units, and adds new visual learning aids to help you integrate and navigate those concepts. Abundant new and updated research and discussion throughout includes reflex loops, body mass index (BMI), airway epithelial cells, cystic fibrosis, oxytocin and autism, COVID-19 and loss of taste and smell, and much more.
I. Basic Cell Processes: Integration and Coordination
1. Introduction to Physiology
2. Molecular Interaction
3. Compartmentation: Cells and Tissues
4. Energy and Cellular Metabolism
5. Membrane Dynamics
6. Communication, Integration, and Homeostasis
II. Homeostasis and Control
7. The Immune System
8. Introduction to the Endocrine System
9. Neurons: Cellular and Network Properties
10. The Central Nervous System
11. Sensory Physiology
12. Efferent Division: Autonomic and Somatic Motor Control
13. Muscles
14. Integrative Physiology I: Control of Body Movement
III. Integration of Function
15. Cardiovascular Physiology
16. Blood Flow and the Control of Blood Pressure
17. Blood 18. Mechanics of Breathing
19. Gas Exchange and Transport
20. The Kidneys
21. Integrative Physiology II: Fluid and Electrolyte Balance
IV. Metabolism, Growth, and Aging
22. The Digestive System
23. Metabolism and Energy Balance
24. Endocrine Control of Growth and Metabolism
25. Integrative Physiology III: Exercise
26. Reproduction and Development
