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| By: Elaine N. Marieb ISBN: 080533856X Publisher: Benjamin Cummings Release Date: 06 May, 2007 Bioscience book rank: 219965 | ||
| By: Elaine Nicpon Marieb, Katja Hoehn ISBN: 0805359109 Publisher: Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Company Release Date: 30 May, 2006 Bioscience book rank: 23149 | I love this book because it is extremely thourough. When I was in anatomy class I had to teach the course to myself because the professor never taught anatomy. So I studied from this book and I got an A in the course. It gets in depth about the macroscopic AND microscopic anatomy and describes the anatomy/physiology/functions/and detailed pictures. | |
| By: Elaine Nicpon Marieb ISBN: 0805354638 Publisher: Pearson Education Release Date: May, 2003 Bioscience book rank: 11062 | You can use it if you install the Netscape Navigator in your computer. It won't work with Internet Explorer or Mozilla. I think this book is great. The text is very up-to-date and comprehensive. The CD that comes with the book really helps cement the major concepts of the text in your mind. If you are a visual learner, this book is for you. This Anatomy book provides great figures and tables that are easy to comprehend, unlike many other similar books. Explanations are given to clarify any question that the student may have. | |
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| By: Elaine N. Marieb, Jon Mallatt, Patricia Brady Wilhelm ISBN: 0805347887 Publisher: Benjamin Cummings Release Date: 15 January, 2007 Bioscience book rank: 156351 | Got this book for a college level human anatomy course. Compared with other similar level anatomy books this one ranks high. Generally easy to read and interesting enough to keep one reading. Overall its an anatomy book and as such it should provide a good overview of human anatomy with just enough physiology to keep one interested in the material and provide a greater insight into what it is your learning, thereby helping to keep the material relevant and easy to recall. And as such this book meets expectations. The book was lost in the mail. I, however, received a full refund on my purchase. I did receive the atlas that went with it. I have the new 5th edition. As a nursing student this text has been extremely easy to read and understand the concepts. It keeps you interested in the information with practical examples and lively dialogue and includes helpful memory tips. It also comes with a cd-rom and access to a web site that really help you study and review the material. My only complaint is the chemistry chapter (Chpt. 2) is a little long and dry but then that is probably due to the subject matter and not the author. I would highly recommend it to anyone! | |
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| By: Frederic H. Martini, Michael J. Timmons, Robert B. Tallitsch ISBN: 0805372105 Publisher: Benjamin Cummings Release Date: 04 April, 2005 Bioscience book rank: 77486 | Good book. Great illustrations. If they have a newer version, get it, but it's a very large but sturdy book (the pages are oversized so it's a bit bulky). Good information. It's great if you're completely confused about something your teacher says. Usually you can reference it in the book and read all about it. This book is written in a very good detail with amazing pictures to make it easier for every learner. I am 100% happy with my purchase and would recommend this book to everyone who is really interested in studying Anatomy. I got it on time and received it as a new book. | |
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| By: Elaine Nicpon Marieb ISBN: 0805373055 Publisher: Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Company Release Date: 10 January, 2006 Bioscience book rank: 27744 | This study guide will work great for those who aren't very familiar with biology, anatomy and physiology in general. However, if you have already taken several biology classes, this study guide is probably not for you. The set-up of the book is different. It never goes into detail about the terminology in the text book. It usually gives short, brief examples that don't really explain how anything works. It's very basic. This book may be more of a "practice test" than a study guide. Personally, I do not recommend this book. This book is a useful review of your anatomy class. It goes along with the chapters and challenges your understanding. This is one of two books sold that are basically the same book. The other is Anatomy & Physiology Coloring Workbook: A Complete Study Guide (8th Edition). My teacher had both listed as recommended purchases...but really either one will suffice. For the most part they both contain the exact same material. Also, if you buy your lecture text book new, it comes with an online access to great review materials and quizes. I think this workbook is an excellent addition to the text. It gave me a great review to help me get ready for my test. I'm so glad I decided to order it! I highly reccomend if you want a bit more to help things sink in! | |
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| By: Elaine N. Marieb, Susan J. Mitchell ISBN: 0805372652 Publisher: Benjamin Cummings Release Date: 29 January, 2007 Bioscience book rank: 252640 | i got it for my wife, because she is going to nursing school and the textbook is required for one of her courses. The book arrived in good condition! Amazon service was very fast. I would use amazon service again. The book arrived just when I needed it to infact a little before. It was in great condition and it still had the code so that I would be able to access the book's online website! | |
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| By: Christine Montross ISBN: 1594201250 Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The Release Date: 21 June, 2007 Bioscience book rank: 198257 | It's certainly an interesting concept for a book--observe the process of first-year anatomy lab at a medical school and watch the fur fly. There are a lot of good details here from Montross on both what the process means in historical terms as well as how it affects those who do it. However, Montross' prose when it comes to her self-observation is too simplistic to carry this book much beyond average. She writes in the tone of an emotional fourteen year-old on an online journal complaining about how someone has wronged her--the descriptions are too emotionally-loaded, too extravagant, too...much to do anything other than get in the way. But if you move quickly through these parts, there's a lot of good to see here as well. Mildly recommended. We have all thought of death. We have all imagined our bodies rotting after death. Many prefer incinerating their bodies, preferring ashes to decaying flesh. However, not all religions allow cremation, and thus, some of us are stuck with living with the thought of a decaying body. This thought is scary to most of us. <br /> <br />All of life is about death and decay. Every day, people around us die. Within our own body, death looms all the time. Cells in my body are dying as I write this. Indeed, we are born to die. And maybe we die to be reborn, sort of like a computer reboot. Some scientists believe death is beneficial to evolution, knocking off the weak genes and improving them in subsequent generations. If we all lived forever, evolution would have no opportunity to improve us. Death can therefore be looked upon as a way of improving ourselves, or an evolutionary upgrade. Any of you been watching the TV series Heroes? <br /> <br />In this book, you will follow the life of a medical student during her journey in body dissection. You will learn what it is like being around a dead body. What does a dead body smell like? What is it like cutting a dead body into pieces? Can a dead body know what we are doing to it? Those are all questions, among many others, medical students (as well as philosophers) ask all the time. And you'll be joining the circle and asking many more questions at the end of this book. <br /> <br />The author traces the history of body dissection, and actually flies first to Italy for her research. In the old days, doctors were desperate for dead bodies in order to learn more about the functions of the living body, and thus help the living. But not many people would volunteer to donate their body to science. The business of body-snatching was thus born. Bodies were often stolen from cemeteries. So prevalent was this practice at the time that families hired armed guards to watch over their family's burial grounds. The poor obviously could not afford such luxury, and their bodies were often stolen and then sold to hospitals. <br /> <br />Fresh bodies earned the most money. A body sold right after death earned more than a day or more old cadaver. This gave rise to another business: killing the patients before they die. Why wait for a person to die? Kill him and give his body for research, and earn big money! Real criminals just killed a person, whether ill or not, and then sold his body. Why wait for the person to be terminally ill? <br /> <br />Not only was there the fear of having your body stolen from the cemetery, but there also was the fear of being donated for research while being still alive. This often happened, and there are many stories of people having been buried alive! This of course gave rise to the tales of zombies! In fact, many acted as zombies for they were partially brain dead from oxygen deprivation. A person can quickly exhaust the oxygen supply in a coffin! <br /> <br />Prevalent at the time was live dissection. This was the preferred method, since the body is still alive, and doctors can better study and understand the functions of the body. But honestly, who would want to be cut off while still alive in the name of science? Unfortunately, many did not have a say. Prisoners were often used as live dissection subjects! <br /> <br />The author tells some horror stories that happened during her medical school. For example, students would cut off the penis of a cadaver and insert it into the vagina of another cadaver. How disrespectful to the dead! There are many other similar stories. Having sex with a dead body is not unheard off. <br /> <br />What is it like transporting a dead body, or part of a dead body? Does the body become an object for study, or the thought that this body was once a person lingers in one's mind? What is it like being in a room alone with twenty dead bodies? <br /> <br />I found it interesting that nowadays medical schools and hospitals are very cautious about which bodies they purchase. For example, if a person just died, the hospital or school researches the person's name and checks whether a student from the same family is one of their resident students. Could you imagine dissecting the body of your own father or uncle? Many psychologists will tell you that the dissection of a body gives trauma to a person, regardless whether the deceased is known or unknown to the dissector. <br /> <br />Nowadays, there is a movement to dissect bodies using 3D software and virtual computer programs. Maybe one day soon, all the dead can rest in peace. <br /> <br />A very prevalent multi-billion business nowadays is selling body parts. Many body parts are sold by poor people. Many body parts are taken from people forcefully. I once saw a movie about an American tourist going on a holiday in a South American Country, meeting a woman at a bar, who later drugs him. He wakes up in his hotel bathtub in icy water. One of his kidneys was surgically removed to be sold! Such stories do happen. There are reports that this is now happening in Iraq, with organs either sold by the person or being forcefully removed! <br /> <br />One important question you will ask yourself at the end of this book: will you give your body for medical research? I already answered this question for myself. <br /> <br />This is one of the best books I have read. The author has a great writing style, poetic at times. You will not be able to put this book down. And you will be scared out of your wits! A fascinating account of this `acceptable taboo' subject - namely the medical dissection of the human body by medical students. This is a personal, because the author is one of the students. She takes us through the entire semester - or more precisely the spiritual journey she undergoes. We follow Ms. Montross through her development - both human and medical. She is obviously anguished by what she has to do in the medical lab - and her reactions and expose give the book great beauty. We can feel her growth, she makes incredible connections between her lab work and internship with live patients. She realizes that the extreme awkwardness and cutting to exposure ALL parts of the human body is also a preparation for dealing with real people who may be terminally ill, have grotesque disfigurations... <br />Like all medical students she must learn to balance feelings and discomfort when listening to patients - but not at the loss of giving just a cold clinical diagnosis. We also get a sense of the mental and physical stress that these students undergo - not all of them make it through the entire term. They are in their own special club - and those outside the club cannot properly relate to them. Ms. Montross gives us wonderful insights into this club. <br />Another aspect of the book I liked was its lack of criticisms. This is not a book that rails against the medical profession and those in it. It treats all from the body undergoing dissection to the students, doctors and patients with a great deal of humanism and respect. <br />She also gives a history of anatomical dissection and how bodies were acquired (more often stolen) in past eras. Given the subject this is not easy reading - it is necessarily morbid. I did not have nightmares, but the words in the book remain with you - as does any good book. <br /> | |
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| By: Elaine N. Marieb ISBN: 080535462X Publisher: Benjamin Cummings Release Date: 02 May, 2003 Bioscience book rank: 76399 | Wow, I am really suprised this book garnered as much positive feedback as it has. I am a nursing major, and I was apalled at the lack of detail in this book. I ended up using the A&P text from my 201 class for the majority of this class. Maybe it was the questions my instructor asked, but I constanatly had to go to other sources in order to find the information I needed. If anyone finds themself in this situation, Ken Saladin's text by the same name is the best!!! This is a required reading text for anatomy and physiology I and II at the college I attend, and I have nothing but praise for the author and illustrators of this book. It is as comprehensive as A&P can get, and as difficult as the material is to learn, it is broken down into systems so that it is not too overwhelming. <br /> <br />The reason why I give this text 5 stars isn't because of the text -- but the CD and online access that is included. Instead of just seeing diagrams of the heart on paper, the CD makes the heart come "alive" by enabling the viewer to see the heart chambers pumping and blood flowing through the major arteries. This is just one of many examples of how learning is enriched with the CD. I could not have made an A in A&P without it! <br /> <br /> I bought the book the first time because I had to. I bought it the second time because I wanted to. <br /> <br />I am a Nursing student. I had to have two semesters of Anatomy & Physiology for Nursing. Like most students, I sold the book back to the bookstore after the second semester. MISTAKE! About half-way through my first semester of Nursing I found myself wishing I had the old A&P book again. So, I went and bought it. <br /> <br />If there is anything you want to know about A&P, this book has it! What a marvelous book! <br /> <br />It's not a book for the casual reader; find something else for that. But if you want to know the details of the body and how it works, BUY THIS BOOK! <br /> <br />Most of the chapters have a beginning that kinda describes the particular section of the body. The remainder of the chapter then goes into details, and I mean details - as much as you can possibly want. <br /> <br />I cannot imagine a better-written book anywhere! | |
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| By: Michael McKinley, Valerie O'Loughlin ISBN: 0077213408 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math Release Date: 05 October, 2007 Bioscience book rank: 75752 | ||
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