Concepts In Medical Physiology

by Julian Seifter, Austin Ratner, David Sloane

Written through a collaboration of expert faculty and medical students from Harvard Medical School, this innovative text delivers a straightforward and clear overview of the major principles, agents, and processes governing human physiology. Emphasis is on understanding the higher-order processes in each organ system. Concepts in Medical Physiology avoids long lists of unprioritized information and undefined jargon by presenting fresh concept diagrams and figures alongside clear explanations of quantitative concepts. It can function equally well as a primary resource or as a review . Eight major sections, comprising a total of 36 chapters, cover general principles, muscle and bone, blood and the immune system, cardiovascular physiology, pulmonary physiology, renal physiology, gastrointestinal physiology, and endocrine physiology. Many useful features simplify mastery of difficult concepts :

669 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2005

About the author

Austin Ratners first novel, The Jump Artist, is the 2011 winner of the Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. It was praised as a remarkable work by Harpers Magazine and featured in Publishers Weekly in 2009 as one of ten promising debuts. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine and has been honored with the Missouri Review Editors Prize in Fiction. He attended the University of Iowa Writers Workshop.

Before turning his focus to writing he received his M.D. from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and he is co-author of the textbook Concepts in Medical Physiology.

He grew up in Cleveland, Ohio and now lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife and two sons."