Biology for the Health Sciences: Mechanisms of Disease

Biology for the Health Sciences: Mechanisms of Disease, 1, 2023 is a comprehensive biology reference published by CRC Press. Description By Mark F Wiser Biology is central to our understanding of health and disease and to the development of effective treatments, and thus it is critical that health professionals have a solid grounding and knowledge comfort in the pathogenesis and mechanisms of disease processes.

Key Features

- Biology is central to our understanding of health and disease and to the development of effective treatments, and thus it is critical that health professionals have a solid…
- This innovative new textbook draws these topics together, providing an accessible introduction across four central disciplines - basic biology, biotechnology, non-infectious…
- Provides students of biology and those going into health care professions with a strong foundation to understand the pathogenesis of disease at the molecular and cellular level
- Focuses on the etiology and pathophysiology of the major human diseases by body system, including diabetes and nutritional disorders, cardiovascular disease, neurodegenerative…
- Covers mechanisms of infectious disease transmission, as well as disease pathophysiology, and considers the impact of antibiotic resistance
- Reviews the applications of biotechnology and genomics to human health in diagnosis and treatment, as well as to our understanding of disease and disease surveillance
- Each chapter contains a mini glossary of key terms and associated definitions, and review questions allow students to assess how much of the chapter they have understood

Product Details

Publisher: CRC Press
Edition: 1
Published Year: 2023
Format: Publisher PDF
File Size: 68.8 MB
ISBN: 978-0815345862, 9781000863789, 1032357266, 1003328202, 0815345860, 9781032357263, 9781003328209, 9780815345862