Human Histology, 2e [Paperback]

James S. Lowe BMedSci BMBS DM FRCPath (Author), Alan Stevens MBBS FRCPath (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 15, 1997 | ISBN-10: 0723424853 | ISBN-13: 978-0723424857 | Edition: 2

This textbook was developed to respond to the increasing focus on cell biology, computer simulation and clinical material in todays histology courses. The book integrates concise text, excellent quality color and black-and-white photographs, and improved three-dimensional artwork of histologic structures. It is the only book available that focuses strictly on human tissues. In addition to practical histology boxes, which help students relate material to lab work, it contains clinical histology boxes with information relating to medical practice, advanced concepts boxes or the ambitious student and key fact boxes.

Spanish version also available, ISBN: 84-8174-282-1

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About the Author

Alan Stevens, MBBS, FRCPath, Senior Lecturer in Pathology, University of Nottingham Medical School and Honorary Consultant Pathologist, Queen's Medical Centre, University Hospital NHS Trust, Nottingham, UK; and James S. Lowe, BMedSci, BMBS, DM, FRCPath, Professor of Neuropathology, University of Nottingham Medical School, Honorary Consultant Pathologist, Queen's Medical Centre, University Hospital NHS Trust, Nottingham, UK --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 408 pages
• Publisher: Mosby; 2 edition (January 15, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0723424853
• ISBN-13: 978-0723424857
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,043,972 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Awful., January 9, 2006

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L Grayson (ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Human Histology (Paperback)

I used this book as a first year medical student. It's just terrible. I have three main issues. First, the language is vague, confusing, and terminology is not consistent within the book. Second, the authors are single-handedly attempting to change medical terminology. As a med student, I couldn't care less about semantic battles of anatomists. All I want is the words defined AS THEY WILL BE USED ON BOARD EXAMS. This book does NOT provide that; instead, early in chapters, it says 'Older books (that is, every textbook ever published except this one) may use the word X, but we prefer the word Y because blah blah blah. So every time you see Y, mentally substitute X if you ever want to communicate with other people or read scientific literature.

And speaking of scientific literature, the authors apparently don't read it. There are multiple areas of questionable scientific validity and just plain misleading content-I know because I used several histology texts throughout, due to this one being so vague and simplistic.

The best text that I used was Histology: A text and atlas by Ross, 4th ed. Ross and Stevens directly contradict each other on many details, though, so if Stevens is used in your class, Ross won't help you pass your tests. It will, however, help for Boards.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars More funny than useful, January 20, 2001

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Stefan Harders - See all my reviews

This review is from: Human Histology, 2e (Paperback)

I bought this recommended book for my Histology class at the University of Copenhagen. At first it was fun to read the authors' dedication of the book to different winemakers, but eventually I grew tired of the endless joking around. The actual core text is not very in-depth but the illustrautions are beautiful, thus the mediocre rating. And another thing, the book is useless when it comes to the central nervous system.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Maybe the best Histology book, October 23, 2010

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Gilberto J Medna E (Mérida, Yucatán Mexico) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Human Histology: With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access, 3e (Human Histology (Stevens)) (Paperback)

Just for using human tissues this book is wonderful. Enough for monkey, pig, rat or horse tissues. Besides, the proposal of discarding the old classification of tissues and instead use now an cellular approach is very appropriate. And above all clear and precise descriptions. This book would be better with more mollecular details, and more information in morphology; but it ouststands many other books in the field.