| Memmler's Structure and Function of the Human Body (STRUCTURE & FUNCTION OF THE HUMAN BODY ( MEMMLER)) |
| Author: Barbara Janson Cohen
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Category: Book
List Price: $36.44
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 214564
Media: Paperback
Edition: Eighth Edition
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 446
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 8.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 0781742331
Dewey Decimal Number: 612
EAN: 9780781742337
ASIN: 0781742331
Publication Date: March 1, 2005
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Product Description
This abridged version of Memmler's The Human Body in Health and Disease includes information on normal anatomy and physiology. New to this edition is a beautifully revised design and art program that will engage students and better help them learn anatomy. New content includes "Word Derivations" sections that promote recognition of scientific terms, "Health Professions" boxes that provide information on the various health careers for which students may be training, and new types of end-of chapter questions. A back-of-book CD-ROM for students with an image atlas and audio pronunciation glossary is included. Online courses for use with WebCT and Blackboard are also available. LiveAdvise online student tutoring and faculty support come as a bonus with every text. Please visit http://connection.lww.com/liveadvise for more information.
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Customer Reviews:
Not a good book for practical nursing June 20, 2008
This book is one of my text books for practial nursing. It has been very frustrating to read. The information is not always clear. I have to find other books that will help me to understand the information.
Horrible book April 19, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is rife with typos and factual errors that make it frustrating to read.
I like the concept of making an easy-to-read, basic introduction to human anatomy and physiology for professionals that need to know the basics but don't have the science background to go very in-depth. I believe that was the authors' intention, but they failed miserably.
I like the images; they are attractive and help make the concepts easy to understand. Unfortunately they are not without their own errors. For example, figure 2-8(A) shows an impossible fatty acid (one of the carbon atoms has 5 bonds).
The thing that most annoyed me about the book (so far) is this sentence "The protons and electrons of an atom always are equal in number, so that the atom as a whole is electrically neutral." (pg. 20) This is so incredibly untrue, it is ridiculous. Ions (atoms that are NOT electrically neutral because they do NOT have an equal number of protons and electrons) are so incredibly important that they are discussed just three pages later.
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