This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to why the human body works as it does. The fourth edition's learning system is designed to challenge students to think critically and understand relationships between structure, function and body. It also encourages students to develop their problem-solving skills by emphasizing the application of concepts throughout. The book features: clinical focus boxes, clinical notes and new systems pathologies case studies; homeostatis physiology summary tables designed to help students learn more complex concepts such as protein synthesis, mitosis and nerve conduction; and system pathologies cases which show how each body system is influenced by a particular system.

