Title Physiology for health care and nursing / edited by Sheenan Kindlen ; foreword by Patricia Peattie

Edition Second edition Published Edinburgh ; New York : Churchill Livingstone, 2003

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MELB	612 Kin/Pfh 2003		AVAILABLE

Description x, 582 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm Contents Introduction: physiological normality or good health? / Sheenan Kindlen -- 1. Cells / Simon J. H. Hettle -- 2. How drugs work -- cellular and molecular systems / Allan MacDonald -- 3. Blood and related tissues / Jan S. Gill -- 4 A. Excitable cells: Neurones / Douglas E. McBean -- 4 B. Excitable cells: Muscle / Douglas E. McBean -- 5. The autonomic nervous system / Sheenan Kindlen -- 6. The cardiovascular circulatory system / Sheenan Kindlen -- 7. The respiratory system / Simon J. H. Hettle -- 8. The renal and urinary system / Christine M. Harris -- 9. The digestive system / Graeme D. Smith -- 10. The liver and metabolism / Roger Watson -- 11. Endocrine systems -- communication and control / Sheenan Kindlen -- 12. Supplying the tissues / Sheenan Kindlen -- 13. Acid-base balance / Jan S. Gill -- 14. Water and electrolyte balance / Frank Prior -- 15. Nutrition / Sheena Douglas -- 16. Body defences / Mary Warnock -- 17. Thermoregulation -- maintaining body temperature / Sheenan Kindlen -- 18. Plasma glucose regulation / Sheenan Kindlen -- 19. Injury and illness / Sheenan Kindlen -- 20. The somatic nervous system: an introduction / Douglas E. McBean -- 21. Sensory systems: an overview / Douglas E. McBean -- 22. Body senses, proprioception, taste and smell / Douglas E. McBean -- 23. Hearing / Douglas E. McBean -- 24. Vision / Douglas E. McBean -- 25. Motor systems: an overview / Douglas E. McBean -- 26. Communicating / Douglas E. McBean -- 27. Sleep, emotion and behaviour / Douglas E. McBean -- 28. Learning and memory / Douglas E. McBean -- 29. Pain / Douglas E. McBean -- 30. Sex, reproduction and pregnancy / Heather Shaw -- 31. Development from conception to maturity / Heather Shaw -- 32. Death and dying / Catriona M. Kennedy Notes Revised edition of: Physiology and anatomy / Sigrid Rutishauser. 1994 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Human physiology. Human anatomy. Physiology. Genre/Form Nurses Instruction. Author Kindlen, Sheenan. Rutishauser, Sigrid. Physiology and anatomy LC no. 2003055364 ISBN 0443071160 9780443071164

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