Category: Textbooks

This best-selling introduction to medical terminology, Stanfield’s Essential Medical Terminology 5th edition (PDF), is based on the body-systems method and is flexible enough to be used in self-instructional or traditional course formats. Suited for students of all levels in the health professions, the accessible Essentials of Medical Terminology, 5th Edition

Organic chemistry can overwhelm students and force them to fall back on memorization. But once they understand how to use mechanisms, they can solve just about any problem. With an organization by mechanism, students will understand more, and memorize less. The Organic Chemistry: Principles and Mechanisms 2nd Edition (pdf) is

Introducing Medical Anthropology: A Discipline in Action 3e (PDF) offers students with the first exposure to the developing field of medical and health anthropology. The narrative is guided by merging themes. First, health-oriented anthropologists are very engaged in the process of helping, to changing degrees, to change the world around

Human Anatomy & Physiology (global edition) speaks to the way today’s diverse students learn and study. In this eBook, the author Erin Amerman strengthens her distinctive learner-centered approach by focusing on three unique pillars. First, Erin Amerman uses art to present one-concept-at-a-time before bringing the distinct parts together in one

Dominant in this volume, and critical to its unique creative significance and contribution, is the conceptual unification of stigma and syndemics. Syndemics theory is increasingly renowned in medicine and social science as a crucial framework for examining and addressing pathways of communication between social and biological aspects of acute and