Understanding the Human Body: An Introduction to Anatomy and Physiology

by Anthony A. Goodman

Streaming video, 1996

Status

Available

Call number

612

Collection

Publication

Great Courses (1996/2004?), 24 hours, 32 lectures, 211 pages

Description

You live with it 24 hours a day, but how well do you really know it? This course is an owner's manual to a remarkably complex, resilient, and fascinating structure: the human body. Using detailed color illustrations, life-sized models, and, even a video shot during surgery, this course examines the major systems of the body, explaining exactly how things work and why they sometimes don't. Each lecture concentrates on a particular organ or organ system, beginning with the cardiovascular system, and on through the respiratory, nervous, digestive, endocrine, urinary, reproductive, musculoskeletal, and immune systems. The last also investigates the biology of cancer. This course introduces anatomy and correlates the findings in anatomy with the functioning of the normal human body, its physiology.… (more)

Language

Original language

English

Physical description

211 p.; 7.5 inches

Local notes

■ Cardiovascular system [1] Anatomy of the heart [2] Physiology of the heart [3] Anatomy of the great vessels [4] Physiology of the great vessels ■ Respiratory system [5] Anatomy of the lungs [6] Physiology of the lungs ■ Nervous system [7] Anatomy of the brain [8] Physiology of the brain [9] Spinal cord and spinal nerves [10] Autonomic nervous system and cranial nerves [11] Eyes [12] Ears, hearing, and equilibrium [13] Memory ■ Digestive system [14] Anatomy of the mouth, esophagus, and stomach [15] Physiology of the mouth, esophagus, and stomach [16] Anatomy of the pancreas, liver, and the biliary tree [17] Physiology of the pancreas, liver, and the biliary tree [18] Anatomy of the small intestine, colon, and rectum [19] Physiology of the small intestine, colon, and rectum [20] The pituitary and adrenal glands ■ Endocrine system [21] Pancreas [22] Thyroid and parathyroid glands ■ Urinary system [23] Anatomy of the kidneys, ureters, and bladder [24] Physiology of the kidneys, ureters, and bladder ■ Reproductive system [25] Male [26] Female [27] Physiology of genetic inheritance ■ Musculoskeletal system [28] Physiology and physics of the muscles [29] Anatomy of the muscles [30] Bones ■ Immune system [31] Anatomy and physiology [32] Biology of human cancer

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