Customer Reviews

Endocrinology (6th Edition)

5 star:		(1)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

This is a very good book with a lot of state of the art information. It will need some understanding of endocrinology or a good basic course in physiology to get the benefits. It would improve, probably, with an approach to the study of the hormones based on the physiological process being under regulation.

I found this book to be rather scattered in organization and poorly written. Color text and/or diagrams would improve the look and readability of the book. As a general endocrinology text, I would not recommend it. However, despite its shortcomings, it IS probably one of the best comparative endocrinology books on the market and should be a valuable addition to a comparative physiologist's library.

The layout of this book make it very easy to use as a textbook or reference source. The clinical examples are very useful to those with a medical interest. The author offers a comprehensive, no nonsense aproach that gets the job done.

There's tons of information in this book. Much of it, however, is irrelevant to most endocrinology courses. To get to the information you do need, such as mechanisms of hormone action, you have to sift through countless lines of impertanent junk! Despite this problem, the book is well written and particularly easy to understand, hence my 3 star rating.

This textbook would be valuable if you were looking for the most recent developments in endocrinology, but if you are trying to learn understandable details about the subject, this is an awful book. The layout was terrible and it skipped around so much that is was basically incomprehensible. I have no idea why my professor picked it.

I was forced to buy this book for a mixed undergrad and graduate endo course. While this book is long on info, it really doesn't work for the course I am taking.... I often reference my biochem and cell bio texts in order to get the full picture. Hadley is also overly wordy, to the point that it can get cumbersome and confusing.

This text is full of information, but is disorganized and dull. There are hardly any graphs, diagrams, pictures....useful techniques to teach information. No chapter summaries. Lack of problem sets. No glossary. This book needs to be rewritten.

A good introductory text to the topic of Endocrinology.

As to the condition of the book I received, it seemed a little too worn to be new, as advertised, but was otherwise fine and usable.

Bought product as a book for an undergraduate course. Some of the material is not as update as you would like, but its a decent reference book about endocrinology. It has decent pictures, but can be tedious to read at time. Good to have on your book shelf in case you need clarifications or general ideas, but not especially great for most up to date information.

One thing's for sure. You read this book from cover to cover and you'll be one knowledgable student. It's loaded with information about endocrinology. Unfortunately, it's also loaded with extraneous information, some of which is most likely irrelevant to what your endocrinology professor is trying to teach, i.e. human endocrinology. Moreover, this excess info makes you have to search long and hard to get to the information you're looking for! But in general, it's a good book. I give it two snaps up and a circle.