Physiology


Textbook of Medical Physiology
The Body: A Guide for Occupants
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ
Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
Why Do Men Have Nipples?: Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
Textbook of Physiology (Set of 2 Volumes)
Textbook of Medical Physiology
LPR Fundamentals of Medical Physiology
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
The 48 Laws of Power
Every 9 Minutes by Christina VitaglianoThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootStiff by Mary RoachA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean
Modern Science Nonfiction
473 books — 383 voters

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootStiff by Mary RoachThe Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha MukherjeeThe Great Influenza by John M. BarryThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
Medical Microhistories
99 books — 94 voters
Osteoporosis Prevention by Susan  LandersYoga Nidra by Suresh PatelGut by Giulia EndersThe End of Alzheimer's by Dale E. BredesenUndoctored by William  Davis
Healthy Aging
407 books — 168 voters

Brian Leiter
Ahistorical commentators who too readily dismiss Nietzsche's interest in physiological questions (e.g., DeMan 1979: 119; Nehamas 1985: 120) miss the centrality of such ways of thinking to Nietzsche's naturalism and to the whole intellectual climate of the period. 'The naturalization of the image of man under the influence of natural science was the work of the materialist movement of the middle of the century' (Schnädelbach 1983: 229). In this regard, Nietzsche was very much a thinker of his tim ...more
Brian Leiter, Nietzsche on Morality

The impulse to be looking constantly with central vision is part of a psychophysical syndrome which includes spinal fixation as another characteristic. Tunnel vision -- the use of the macula, or central portion of the retina, to the relative exclusion of the surrounding area -- is hard on/eyes and diminishes their visual potential; it accentuates selective fixation upon objects one after another, missing the whole view and seeing objects as separate from their larger context. It accompanies and ...more
Alexandra Pierce, Expressive Movement: Posture And Action In Daily Life, Sports, And The Performing Arts

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