An Introduction to Human Disease: Pathology and Pathophysiology Correlations - Hardcover

Crowley, Leonard V.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0763707279 ISBN 13: 9780763707279

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2004

Synopsis

An Introduction to Human Disease, Sixth Edition is a clearly written and profusely illustrated text that takes a systems approach to presenting human disease. Specifically designed for students in the allied health and nursing fields, the text correlates structure and function disturbances, indicates how the disturbances cause the clinical manifestations of the various diseases, and discusses how these disturbances also initiate treatment. Though vastly updated, the text is still organized into two main sections: the first section covers general concepts and diseases that affect the body as a whole; the second section takes a systems approach, which details disorders typically affecting specific organ systems.

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From Book News:

Intended for nursing students, this textbook characterizes the structural and functional changes caused by disease in tissues and organs as a basis for understanding the clinical manifestations and principles of treatment. Cowley (laboratory medicine, University of Minnesota) describes the organization and function of cells, the immune system, pathogenic microorganisms and parasites, the coagulation of blood, and diseases of each primary body system. The sixth edition updates the material on PET scans, the human genome project, tumors, and HIV transmission.Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

About this edition

• Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0763707279
• ISBN 13: 9780763707279
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 816