Biology for the Health Sciences

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 levelFocuses on the etiology and pathophysiology of the major human diseases by body system, including diabetes and nutritional disorders, cardiovascular disease, neurodegenerative diseases, and cancer, aligned to medicine and health science course structureCovers mechanisms of infectious disease transmission, as well as disease pathophysiology, and considers the impact of antibiotic resistanceReviews the applications of biotechnology and genomics to human health in diagnosis and treatment, as well as to our understanding of disease and disease surveillanceEach chapter contains a mini glossary of key terms, and review questions for students to assess how much of the chapter they have assimilated