Human Physiology: An Integrated Approach, Media Update, 4/E
Dee Unglaub Silverthorn, University of Texas, Austin

ISBN-10: 0321550889
ISBN-13: 9780321550880

Publisher: Benjamin Cummings
Copyright: 2009
Format: Cloth Bound w/CD-ROM; 816 pp
Published: 03/19/2008

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Human Physiology: An Integrated Approach broke ground with its thorough coverage of molecular physiology seamlessly integrated into a traditional homeostasis-based systems approach. The new Fourth Edition, Media Update provides access to an expanded media package.

 

The Fourth Edition, Media Update is automatically packaged with the new Interactive Physiology® (IP) 10-System Suite CD-ROM, and access to the revised companion website, which includes all the great resources from the Fourth Edition website plus:

 

  • Interactive Physiology with gradable quizzes, featuring a new module on the Immune System
  • PhysioEx 8.0 with gradable quizzes
  • The Get Ready for A&P Media Update
  • New interactive concept maps
  • Three new case studies and updates to the existing case studies (including a new interface)


  • Four chapters on Integrative Physiology (Chapters 6, 13, 20, and 25) ask students to step back and look at the big picture to discover how the separate physiological processes work together in an integrated system. These chapters also explore how body systems influence each other and show that overall systems are often more complicated than the sum of their component parts.
  • Interactive pedagogy encourages students to assess their knowledge as they read rather than waiting until the end of the chapter

o Background Basics sections at the beginning of each chapter allow students to revisit and review topics for the upcoming chapter.

o Running Problems appear in segments throughout each chapter and require students to apply what they have learned to a real life pathophysiology case study.

o Concept Checks are placed at intervals throughout the chapters and ask students to test their understanding before continuing to the next topic.

o Figure and graph questions promote analytical skills by asking students to interpret information presented in the art.

o Concept Links (signaled with blue chain link symbols) help students locate material they need to review.

o The End-of-Chapter, 4-level learning system helps build student confidence and understanding by progressing from factual questions to conceptual problems to analytical exercises to quantitative questions.

  • Superb art program features:

o Full-spread Anatomy Summaries show the anatomy of a physiological system from a macro to micro perspective.

o Reflex pathway maps and concept maps present material in a logical, consistent, and easy-to-navigate format.

  • Coordinated feature boxes provide relevance and enhance students' knowledge of “hot topics” and include Clinical Focus (featuring several discussions on Diabetes), Biotechnology, and Emerging Concepts.
  • Chapters 1-4 focus on the “big picture” themes in the study of physiology to help students conceptualize and tie together concepts throughout the rest of the book.
  • Powerful Instructor Supplements include a full set of color transparencies for every figure in the book, and a comprehensive Media Manager CD-ROM for Instructors with customization features, animations, and PowerPoint® lecture outlines.

 

An expanded media package includes:

  • IP-10, including a new module on The Immune System, is automatically included with each new copy of the text,and updated references to IP-10 are also included in the text. IP-10 significantly enriches teaching and learning environments by providing an audio/visual presentation of complex topics. For use as both a teaching tool in the classroom and a study tool for students, IP-10 features narrated, full-color animations that thoroughly demonstrate difficult physiology concepts, many of which occur at the cellular and molecular level. Extensive interactive quizzes and games reinforce the material.
  • The updated companion website includes new interactive concept maps that help students conceptualize complex physiological processes, three levels of quizzing, revised weblinks, three new case studies and content updates to the existing case studies (including a new interface), Muscle and Bone Reviews, a Histology Tutorial, Chapter Summaries, a Glossary, Flashcards, and Instructor's Resources. This site also provides access at no additional charge to the new Interactive Physiology® 10-System Suite with gradeable quizzes, the new PhysioEx 8.0 for Human Physiology with gradeable quizzes, and the Get Ready for A&P Media Update.
  • PhysioEx™ 8.0 for Human Physiology sets a new standard for excellence among physiology laboratory simulation programs. This easy-to-use software consists of 11 exercises containing 79 activities that may be used to supplement or substitute for wet labs. PhysioEx 8.0 allows students to repeat labs as often as they like, perform experiments without harming live animals, and conduct experiments that may be difficult to perform in a wet lab environment due to time, cost, or safety concerns. 

I: Basic Cell Processes: Integration and Coordination

1.      Introduction to Physiology

2.      Molecular Interactions

3.      Compartmentation: Cells and Tissues

4.      Energy and Cellular Metabolism

5.      Membrane Dynamics

6.      Communication, Integration, Homeostasis

 

II: Homeostasis and Control

 7. Introduction to the Endocrine System

 8. Neurons: Cellular and Network Properties

 9. The Central Nervous System

10. Sensory Physiology

11. Efferent Division: Autonomic and Somatic Motor Control

12. Muscles

13. Integrative Physiology I: Control of Body Movement

 

III: Integration of Function

14. Cardiovascular Physiology

15. Blood Flow and the Control of Blood Pressure

16. Blood

17. Mechanics of Breathing

18. Gas Exchange and Transport

19. The Kidneys

20. Integrative Physiology II: Fluid and Electrolyte Balance

 

IV: Metabolism, Growth, and Aging

21. Digestion

22. Energy Balance and Metabolism

23. Endocrine Control of Growth and Metabolism

24. The Immune System

25. Integrative Physiology III: Exercise

26. Reproduction and Development

Dee Silverthorn has been teaching at the University of Texas since 1986 where she lectures and coordinates student laboratories in physiology, and instructs graduate students in a course on developing teaching skills in the life sciences. Her innovative teaching has been recognized with numerous local and national awards, including the American Physiological Society's Arthur C. Guyton Physiology Educator of the Year and Claude Bernard Distinguished Lectureship, and the University of Texas Marilla D. Svinicki Burnt Orange Apple Award, Texas Excellence Teaching Award, and College of Natural Sciences Teaching Excellence Award. Her textbook also received the Robert W. Hamilton Author Award for best textbook published by a University of Texas faculty member. "Dr. Dee" studied biology and art as an undergraduate at Newcomb College and went onto earn a Ph.D. in marine science from the University of South Carolina. She began her career in the Physiology Department of the Medical University of South Carolina and spent several years at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston before coming to Austin. Her research interest is epithelial transport, and work in her laboratory currently focuses on transport properties of the chick allantoic membrane. She is past chair of the Teaching Section of the American Physiological Society and just completed six years as editor-in-chief of Advances in Physiology Education. Her physiology education outreach extends to the international level and she has organized workshops and symposia in countries around the world.

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