So much of the body's physiology and metabolism is dependent on its genetic makeup, it is crucial for health care providers to understand these concepts. Chapter Sections . Gives more pedagogical support to individual topics within chapters. Updated content on exercise physiology . Chapter 14 contains updated and new content on topics of exercise physiology such as cardiovascular control in isometric exercise, arterial baroreceptors, and exercise and coronary artery disease.
Exercise physiology demonstrates the extremes of physiological stress.
This updated coverage will help students to relate the changes that the body goes through during exercise to normal physiology and gain a better understanding of physiology through this comparison. This text is now fully integrated with the Dynamic Human CD-ROM as well as the Life Science Animations Videotape Series. These two products are linked by the use of icons at the end of appropriate figure legends. Gives student the capability of further exploring concepts in an interactive or animated environment. The McGraw-Hill Companies.