Introduction to Human Disease. Pathophysiology for Health Professionals

Description

Introduction to Human Disease: Pathophysiology for Health Professionals, Fifth Edition is a textbook of pathology that also focuses on clinical signs, symptoms and treatment in order to give students a more comprehensive view of human disease. This extensive, user-friendly text is well organized for comprehension and addresses the most common and significant diseases. For every major disease, a text box summarizes the cause, lesion and manifestations. Illustrations feature colorful line drawings and carefully selected gross photographs to augment the student’s understanding of basic disease processes. Introduction to Human Disease: Pathophysiology for Health Professionals will help students understand the basic principles of human disease before going on to more detailed study.

The full-color Fifth Edition features over 400 photos and illustrations to facilitate comprehension, clinically oriented information on diseases, clear-cut objectives at the beginning of each chapter, and review questions with multiple-choice answers at the end of each chapter. The features that made this textbook so popular through the first four editions have all been retained. Special chapters not usually found in other introductory human disease texts include “Most Frequent and Significant Diseases,” “Diagnostic Resources,” and “Mental Illness.”

Key Features

• User-friendly, accessible text with full-color photos and illustrations
• Teaches students about human disease by describing and actually showing the pathology in the involved organs
• Incorporates clinical signs and symptoms, and treatment in the discussion of a given disease
• Cause, Lesion, Manifestation boxes summarize the salient features of each disease
• Includes special chapters not usually found in other introductory human disease texts include “Most Frequent and Significant Diseases,” “Diagnostic Resources,” and “Mental Illness”
• Helps students understand the basic principles of human disease before going on to more detailed study

Table of Contents

Section One An Overview
Chapter 1 Introduction to Pathology
Chapter 2 Most Frequent and Significant Diseases
Chapter 3 Diagnostic Resources

Section Two Basic Disease Processes
Chapter 4 Injury, Inflammation, and Repair
Chapter 5 Hyperplasias and Neoplasms
Chapter 6 Cancer
Chapter 7 Genetic and Developmental Diseases

Section Three Major Organ-Related Diseases
Chapter 8 Vascular System
Chapter 9 Heart
Chapter 10 Hematopoietic System
Chapter 11 Bleeding and Clotting Disorders
Chapter 12 Lung
Chapter 13 Oral Region, Upper Respiratory Tract and Ear
Chapter 14 Gastrointestinal Tract
Chapter 15 Liver, Gallbladder, and Pancreas
Chapter 16 Kidney, Lower Urinary Tract, and Male Genital Organs
Chapter 17 Female Genital Organs
Chapter 18 Breast
Chapter 19 Skin
Chapter 20 Eye
Chapter 21 Bones and Joints
Chapter 22 Skeletal Muscle and Peripheral Nerve
Chapter 23 Central Nervous System
Chapter 24 Mental Illness
Chapter 25 Endocrine System

Section Four Multiple Organ System Diseases
Chapter 26 Infectious Diseases
Chapter 27 Immunologic Diseases
Chapter 28 Physical Injury
Chapter 29 Chemical Injury
Chapter 30 Nutritional Disorders and Alcoholism

About the Authors

Michael N. Hart, MD-Professor and Chair, Department of Pathology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dr. Hart has been actively practicing and teaching pathology in a University setting for 35 years. He is boarded in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology and Neuropathology. He has directed and taught in courses for which this textbook is designed.

Agnes G. Loeffler, MD, PhD-Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dr. Loeffler co-directs a course on human disease for allied health professional students at the University of Madison-Wisconsin and practices anatomic pathology.