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| Anatomy and Physiology: From Science to Life | 
| Authors: Gail W. Jenkins, Christopher P. Kemnitz, Gerard J. Tortora
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 250133
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 1152
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 9.4 x 1.7
ISBN: 0471613185
Dewey Decimal Number: 612
EAN: 9780471613183
ASIN: 0471613185
Publication Date: February 17, 2006
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| Customer Reviews:
 Book NOT recommended May 31, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I am inclined to disagree with the instructor whose post precedes mine. I would actually describe this text exactly opposite from what this instructor said, and I will describe why, and will include many other drawbacks as well.
Firstly, the book is heavily bulked up with extremely IRrelevant stories that do not even remotely qualify as case studies, and which the student can not possibly have time to read when there is a plethora of real information to be learned. This reading comes across as story time for elementary school students. There is also a very notable lack of diseases mentioned and described, although these can be found in numerous other sources anyway. Further, I do not care for the organization of the book. Some things are nicely organized in to lists or charts, while other important vocabulary, definitions, concepts, and especially pictures, which belong grouped together are spread out over multiple pages, mixed in with other text. On that note, some pictures are very poor to begin with - not properly or thoroughly representing the item. Because of these combined issues of organization and story time, this book is probably close to 100 pages longer than it needs to be, which is undesirable for an already large book.
There is a great amount of terms and info which is nowhere to be found in either the index or the glossary - this is a particularly significant problem. I have looked things up on dozens of occasions that I know are in the text, only to be unable to find it in the index or glossary. The companion book software (not the ADAM software, which is excellent), is absolutely useless - grossly lacking in detail, and missing huge areas of information.
Lastly, and most importantly, I have found a number of mistakes and contradictions in the text. this is common for any science textbook, but is especially unacceptable in an anatomy and physiology book, for numerous obvious reasons. My own professor has expressed some of these same concerns bout this book, and neither she nor the majority of the lab teaching assistants use this text for personal use.
I have earned an A in the anatomy class at a university, and did it while casting this book aside about 1/2 way through the semester. The two software programs, ADAM 4.0 & Anatomy & Physiology Revealed, in addition to lecture and lab materials, as well as the internet, should be enough to ace this class at almost any school without using this book. Use your money on a different text. Proper knowledge of health care related subjects such as A&P is too important to the student to be relying on a book with as many problems as this one has.
The only redeeming aspect of this book is that I believe that it was bundled with the ADAM software, which can be bought separately for about 50-60% the cost of the text by itself - this software is highly recommended.
I would also note that I have nothing to compare this book to, so I am judging it on its own merits.
 A Fresh Approach to Anatomy and Physiology March 26, 2006
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Gail Jenkins and Christopher Kemnitz have taken Tortora's Anatomy and Physiology in an unexpected and most welcome direction. This text emphasizes clinical physiology for allied health students with a case-study approach. Having taught many thousands of students enrolled in Human Anatomy and Physiology classes and used many different texts, I appreciate this very powerful and clinically relevant text for students on allied health tracks.
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