30-Second Anatomy

The 50 Most Important Structures and Systems in the Human Body, Each Explained in Half a Minute

Gabrielle M Finn, Judith Barbaro-Brown, Claire France Smith

• Publisher: Ivy Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9781782400394
• eBook ISBN: 9781782400714
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Physiology

The 50 most important structures and systems in the human body, each explained in half a minute. The bestselling 30-Second series offers a new approach to learning about those subjects you feel you should really understand. Every title takes a popular topic and dissects it into the 50 most significant ideas at its heart. Each idea, no matter how complex, is explained using a mere two pages, 300 words, and one picture: all easily digested in only half a minute. 30-Second Anatomy offers you an instant diagnosis of how your body works. Whether youre a medical student, an artist, a body worker, or simply want to know what your doctor is talking about when he mentions your humerus, this is the quickest way to get under your own skin. Dissecting the workings of everything from your heart to your brain into 30-second summaries, this is the quickest way to understand the structures and systems that are you. Supported by biographies of the pioneers in anatomy studies, its the book that would have kept Burke and Hare home at night.

APPENDICES

RESOURCES

Books

Atlas of Human Anatomy
Frank H. Netter
(Saunders; 5th edn, 2010)

Clinically Oriented Anatomy
Keith L. Moore, Arthur F. Dalley, and Ann M. R. Agur
(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 6th edn, 2009)

Grant’s Dissector
Patrick W. Tank
(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 15th edn, 2012)

Gray’s Anatomy
Henry Gray
(1858; 40th edn, Arcturus Publishing, 2010)

Gray’s Anatomy for Students
Richard L. Drake, A. Wayne Vogel, and Adam W. M. Mitchell
(Churchill Livingston, 2010)

Human Physiology: An Integrated Approach
Dee Unglaub Silverthorn
(Oxford University Press, 2006)

Neuroanatomy: An Illustrated Colour Text
Alan R. Crossman and David Neary
(Churchill Livingston, 2010)

WEB SITES

The American Association of Anatomists
http://aaatoday.org/
The AAA is an organization dedicated to the advancement of anatomical science through research, education and professional development activities.

The Anatomical Society
http://www.anatsoc.org.uk/
The Anatomical Society, founded in 1887, is a learned society with charitable status. Its aims are to promote, develop and advance research and education in all aspects of anatomical science. It achieves these aims by organizing scientific meetings; publishing the Journal of Anatomy and Aging Cell; making annual awards of PhD studentships, grants and prizes.

Instant Anatomy
http://www.instantanatomy.net/
Instant anatomy is a specialized web site devoted to human anatomy with diagrams, podcasts and revision questions.

Visible Body
http://www.visiblebody.com/
A comprehensive visualization tool, Visible Body is a virtual human anatomy web site contain...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• The Skeletal System
• The Muscular System
• The Cardiovascular & Respiratory Systems
• The Digestive System
• The Sensory & Speech Organs
• The Endocrine & Nervous Systems
• The Reproductive System
• APPENDICES