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The Complete Human Body Description
We inhabit it, we are it, and we are surrounded by 6.8 billion examples of it on the planet – the human body. Some parts of it are still mysteries to science and much is a mystery to the average person on the street. But we've come a long way from the sketches and diagrams drawn by the first anatomists in Ancient Greece.
Making full use of new medical procedures and imaging techniques, The Complete Human Body is the definitive guide to the development, form, function, and disorders of the human body, illustrated with unprecedented clarity by new computer-generated artworks and the latest medical and microscopic imaging. Exploring the body's form and function in greater depth than any other popular reference, from muscle structure and activity to motor pathways within the brain, The Complete Human Body will have great appeal to students and a broad range of healthcare professionals, as well as families. Includes an interactive DVD and website!
- Hardcover: 512 pages
- Publisher: DK Publishing; Har/DVD edition (August 30, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 075666733X
- ISBN-13: 978-0756667337
- Product Dimensions: 12.5 x 9.9 x 1.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 5.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Upon my first browse-through of "The Complete Human Body," my initial impression was that it was an updated version of DK 2007 release The Human Body Book (Book & DVD) (referred to as THBB from now on), but twice as large. Having spent some time to actually explore the book more thoroughly, that view hasn't changed much.
First off, this book is MASSIVE. If you've owned any of DK's other "definitive visual guides" you know what to expect. The book is broken into five main parts: Integrated Body, Anatomy, How The Body Works, Life Cycle, and Diseases And Disorders. Like the other Definitive Visual Guides, The Complete Human Body is divided into two and four-page thematic spreads. The book utilizes a combination of computer models, medical imagery, and traditional drawings in depicting the inner workings of the human body.
The biggest improvement from THBB lies in the Anatomy section, which occupies half of the book. The first section focuses on overall views of different body systems, with detailed spreads on the structure of hones, ligaments, veins, skin, etc. The Anatomy Atlas divides the body into seven main regions, each of the systems within that region depicted in a two-page spread. In the case of the skeletal and muscular systems, posterior and anterior views are provided. The depiction of muscles is especially well done, with views of deep and superficial muscles of the anterior and posterior in each region. Views of the major organs, close-ups of various structures, and MRI scans are also included in this part.
The Complete Human Body book by Alice Roberts, a physician, and many consultants, is what you wish you had available when you asked Mom, school teachers, friends and so forth questions about the human body. Likely you didn't receive really useful, let alone accurate information from them.
Few people know how their body works or are able to visualise its structure. This is a work (it includes a limited but useful DVD which does not duplicate the text page for page but can be taken with your laptop for quick review) which presents the finest illustrations the layperson is ever likely to see. They are comprised of high quality computer generated images(which allows unlimited viewpoints for the publisher), photographs, along with body scans such as MRI and Ultra Sound. The artistic medical illustrations are astoundingly done also. The noted medical illustrator, the late Dr. Frank Netter, has some keen competition based on what I've seen here.
Your jaw will drop when you see some of these. The large size makes them maximally impressive and useful. This is not to say the text, particularly in the sections on diseases and physiology or in the labeling of the illustrations is anything but excellent as well. It is quite difficult to reduce what could, and has been, said about the human body, including the latest discoveries, to the point where it could be both meaningful and useful to the general public, but I was impressed.
This book was produced in the United Kingdom, printed in China, and published by DK in Great Britian in 2010.
I like the way the publisher, DK, conceptualises the work and lays out the pages. Most concepts are on a two page spread, sometimes with a huge, beautiful illustration of an anatomical or functional point.
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