Understanding the Human Body : An Introduction to Anatomy and Physiology

You live with it 24 hours a day. But how well do you really know it? These 32 lectures are your owners manual to a remarkably complex resilient and endlessly fascinating structure: the human body. Your guide is Dr. Anthony A. Goodmansurgeon professor and writerwho takes you step by step through the major systems of the body explaining exactly how things work and why they sometimes dont. Using detailed color illustrations life-sized models and in one lecture a video shot during surgery Dr. Goodman gives clear descriptions of structure (anatomy) and function (physiology) aimed at the level of the interested layperson.