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Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville. Major textbook for students emphasizing broad concepts and basic principles. Color illustrations, chapter-end summary statements, self-study essay questions with answers, and a mini-exam are included. 9 U.S. contributors. DNLM: Physiology.
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| Review Date: June 9, 2004 |
| Reviewer: Dr. A.M., |
The key to selecting a useful textbook for physiology lies in knowing the depth of knowledge you actually need. Having gone through med school and learnt physiology as part of the course, i actually found that Berne & Levy was really too detailed to use as a primary text. I used B&L, Ganong, and Guyton primarily as references when i needed more in depth detail on certain topics. An excellent book for undergraduates is a text by the author Sherwood. This book gives an excellent conceptual account of human physiology, so that you understand the principles. In books like B&L, it's easy to lose the big picture in all the detail, particularly as a student when it's all new material.
Having said that, i'm now using B&L along with several other texts to study for my anesthesiology exams. It undoubtedly has the best cardiovascular chapter of any physiology text.
Take home message is that if you are studying physiology for postgraduate purposes, you'll probably need B&L as well as several other texts. As a student, i'd recommend using a more basic text and consulting B&L for the fine print.
Dr A.M. |
Excellent book
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| Review Date: April 16, 2002 |
| Reviewer: Jason Cuellar, Burlingame, CA USA |
| I am a 2nd year PhD student in physiology, and throughout nearly all of my courses I found this book to be an excellent reference. Very clear and concise, with much more detail than most other basic physiology texts, which often gloss over important details. Very complete content, nice basic figures and helpful bibliographies. I highly recommend this book to anyone studying physiology as your "go-to book" for basic info in just about any specialization, whether you're a med student, grad student or undergrad. Furthermore, the price is [great]; at less than [$] it is [less costly] than most far-inferior textbooks in any scientific discipline. |
Great book to understand cardiovascular physiology
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| Review Date: June 4, 2005 |
| Reviewer: Sian Yik Lim, Japan |
| After reading this book, I was able to understand cardiovascular physiology at last. I tried Ganong before, but Ganong is just full of facts without any explanations. Ganong is just a review for those who know cardiovascular physiology. Berne and Levy is the book if you want to learn and understand cardiovascular physiology. |
Caveat: LOADED with errors!
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| Review Date: May 2, 2007 |
| Reviewer: MedStudentViolinist, IL |
| Very disappointing. I understand that no textbook is 'perfect,' but this text has an extraordinary amount of errors. I found 3 errors in a single paragraph. I have dabbled in a few of the chapters on various subjects and there have been errors in every one. I've actually started a list noting the errors and plan to write a chastising letter to the editors. What are they getting paid for if not to EDIT?? It is practically negligent, in my opinion to publish such shoddy work. Some of the errors may be extremely confusing to a student who has never studied physiology before. So be careful! And I would recommend some other book...the other commentators seem to have some good suggestions. |
A terrible physiology text
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| Review Date: March 25, 2007 |
| Reviewer: uncgump, NY |
I am a first year med student, and this book was recommended as our primary physio text. The problem is, it is terrible. The writing is excessively verbose and poorly descriptive. The topical considerations are poorly chosen and poorly organized. And perhaps most annoying is the atrociousness of the illustrations: they are few, poorly drawn, consist of only three colors. This is a big point, since many of us find visual representations to be an important tool for understanding and remembering physiology concepts.
I have finally given up on this text and chosen to go with the newer edition of a text I used in undergrad. I highly recommend Human Anatomy and Physiology by Marieb, which succeeds where this physio text fails, and even has great clinical correlations, disease states, and anatomy and embryology correlations.Human Anatomy & Physiology (7th Edition) It is more expensive, but worth every penny. |
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