It is crucial that health professionals have a firm foundation and knowledge comfort in the etiology and mechanisms of disease processes since biology is important to our understanding of health and disease as well as the creation of successful treatments. This ground-breaking new textbook integrates these subjects and offers an approachable introduction to four key fields: fundamental biology, biotechnology, non-infectious diseases, and infectious diseases.
Key characteristics:
gives biology students and those pursuing careers in the medical field a solid basis for understanding the pathophysiology of disease at the molecular and cellular level.
focuses on the etiology and pathophysiology of the primary human diseases by body system, such as diabetes and nutritional disorders, cardiovascular disease, neurodegenerative diseases, and cancer, in accordance with the course framework for medicine and health science.
covers disease pathology, infectious illness transmission pathways, and the effects of antibiotic resistance
Examines how biotechnology and genomics are used to improve human health, including how diseases are understood and how to monitor them.
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
Digital resources accompany the textbook, such as interactive quizzes for students to engage with and figure slides of the book’s illustrations that instructors can use in lectures
Enhanced throughout with plentiful illustrations, Biology for the Health Sciences is an essential companion for any student of the health sciences and for biological science students studying the causes of disease as part of a wider course.
