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Histology and Cell Biology: An Introduction to Pathology: With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access, 2e

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I would recommend this book for anyone taking histology in medical school or undergrad. I am a med student and found this book much easier to learn from compared to other textbooks I have read. The author writes in a fashion that enhances learning. The pictures are also very good and helped me to further visualize the types of epithlia. I studied from the following which is also on amazon.com:
Histology Study Guide: Key Review Questions and Answers by Patrick Leonardi
This second book was so amazing because it had the kind of questions I saw on my histology exams. My study group and I used both these books and we all passed with ease and with less study time. Time is money. It's better to invest in a couple of excellent books than to take a $2500 class all over again. I give both books 6 stars!!!!!

The pictures were the selling point in this book. It did go a little too far in depth for my histology class at the time, talking about subunit x of protein y connects to this subunit in this way. However, it became more useful when I got to phys and path. The diagrams were everything, and they supplemented the text well. It did not have as many real microscopic pictures as Wheaters, but I found the drawings more useful than just staring at a light pink blob by a darker pink blob.

This book is a wonderful resource for anyone that is in histology! Unlike other books, it does a great job of illustrating identifying characteristics of certian cells and tissues. It is very well written and easy to follow, but it is not an oversimplification or dumbed down at all. It is simply a great book!

Having taken this class with Dr. Kierszenbaum at his school, i know how much histology can focus on what seems like minute details, such as little blue and purple dots in microscopes. Fortunately. Dr. Kierszenbaum's textbook, which is being released in its second edition in January 2007, is filled with loads of great pictures. The text is decent, and at least for me, it took a long time just to get through a single chapter. Once that's done, though, the pictures are all you need for review. Although it depends on the style of your histology class, Dr. Kierszenbaum's book should be a good, colorful read for many students.

I bought the Kindle for PC version of this text. If you are buying the Kindle version of this book, beware. The resolution of the images is such that you can not read the accompanying text (the text that is part of the image). The pictures themselves are difficult to view. As this is a histology textbook, this is a MAJOR PROBLEM. Frankly, I'm surprised they offer this text in this version.

I really am not sure why they include images that are not in the original form with the original quality. It makes a good portion of this text useless. I called support for Kindle for PC and there is no solution.

Happily, I can get this purchase refunded. However, I'll be desperately squinting until my test on Thursday, trying to get what I can from this. Not enough time to buy the hard copy at this point. My eyes hurt.

This is the first book combining both histology, molecular biology and pathology together in a clear language and very well organized fashion.
Thanks a lot to you and to the author for his effort.

I'm a 4th year medical student who is going to be a pathology resident next year. I decided to pick up a histology textbook to do some light reading before my residency starts. I went on amazon and looked for the highest-rated histology text, which ended up being this book...

This book is written at the perfect level for medical students or beginning residents. It also includes copious information on cell biology, which helps you understand why cells look the way they do under a microscope! The pictures are extremely good quality and are a very useful supplement to the text.

Amazon lets you look inside books before purchasing them, so I recommend you do that and go through the first chapter or so. If you're looking for an excellent histology/cell biology book, look no further and pick up a copy :)

This book is a reference for medical students and for any reader wishing to remain updated on connections between cell biology, histology, medical genetics and human pathology.

This book is really a perfect book for almost all students who select the lesson histology. I have purchased it for some months ago and it has been shipped to me some days ago.

Description matches the state of the book perfectly and even includes extra student media that was not mentioned on the Amazon listing. The book came when the estimate said it would and that makes me a completely satisfied customer.