Anatomy and Physiology For Dummies Paperback – 6 May 2011

Would recommend. Good book. Good pictures.

I am a nursing student and bought this book to use along with our main degree text book, Ross and Wilson's Anatomy and Physiology in Health and Illness. The Dummies book is very well organised and goes into quite a bit of detail to help me understand the basics of A&P before reading in more depth my main book. The book arrived very promptly and was well packaged.

When the book arrived, a quick scan-through suggested that it took more of a scientific approach than a highly illustrated A-Z of the Human Body that I had previously read. However, this has since proved to be beneficial as the contents, for me, were well structured in a logical order and filled in a huge amount of blanks that had been missing from my limited knowledge. Whilst some of the chapters may seem quite difficult to grasp at first and the supporting colour illustrations are rather minimal, it is very easy to complement these by accessing medical or encyclopedic websites.What I particularly learned from the book is that the human body is a complex, organic, self regulating and self-repairing machine that follows basic scientific and engineering principals. However, the machine requires to be treated with respect by the owner to help avoid long term maintenance issues. I also observed that some of the apparently difficult chapters suddenly became much easier to understand where I had a special interest due to close family members' medical conditions.In conclusion, I found Anatomy and Physiology for Dummies was both a good read and a useful source of information that would probably be of help to pre-medical students or those, like me, who just wish to know more about the ultimate science.

Very happy with my book, it isn't due to come until tomorrow but it arrived a day early (3 days ofter ordering it)Here are a few pictures to give you an idea of the context of the book, the wording is brilliant and it provides the basics but in depth knowledge which will really help me for uni in September!Definitely would recommend.

This book is ideal for any health and social students but also for student nurses as it provides the fundamental aspects of anatomy and physiology. This book is a must buy, it is highly informative and helpful in any health courses. There isn't a lot of images as it is more writing than images but it is still extremely helpful.

Great book written in a light hearted manner. Bought this for my wife who is doing a course but pleased to say that our son is also reading it as it's helping with his science / biology study at school. Overall good information, well written in a quirky and light hearted manner.

Good information but written in strange text...easy to understand!

A brilliant book, well designed and works very well with other Student work books - to have a complete selection of ideas. Its also nice to move between different points of view. Great diagrams, not found in other A&P books make for easy learning, excellent.