The Pathway for Oxygen - Structure and Function in the Mammalian Respiratory System (Paperback)

It is rare indeed for one book to be both a first-rate classroom text and a major contribution to scholarship. "The Pathway for Oxygen" is such a book, offering a new approach to respiratory physiology and morphology that quantitatively links the two. Professionalism in science has led to a compartmentalization of biology. Function is the domain of the physiologist, structure that of the morphologist, and they often operate with vastly disparate concepts and procedures. Yet the performance of the respiratory system depends both on structural and on functional properties that cannot be separated.

The first chapter of "The Pathway for Oxygen" engages the student with the design and function of the vertebrate respiratory organs from a comparative viewpoint. The second chapter adds to that foundation the link between cell energetics and oxygen needs of the whole animal. With Chapter 3 the excitement begins--new ideas, fresh attacks on old problems, and a fuller account of the power of the quantitative approach Dr. Weibel has pioneered.

"The Pathway for Oxygen" will be read eagerly by medical students, graduate students, advanced undergraduates in zoology--and by their professors.

General

Imprint:	Harvard University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	1984
First published:	1984
Authors:	Ewald R. Weibel
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	448
ISBN-13:	978-0-674-65790-8
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > General
LSN:	0-674-65790-X
Barcode:	9780674657908

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