Key Revision Changes

Shaping the Sixth Edition

Before I began writing this new edition, my editors at WCB/McGraw-Hill repeated a successful technique introduced at the last revision cycle: they requested users of the previous edition to send in their suggestions and comments, focusing on a chapter of particular interest. The responses were enthusiastic and insightful, as I had come to expect from my colleagues. Thus, every chapter in the previous book was reviewed several times over by people who had used the book in their own classrooms. The sixth edition benefited enormously from this input. It also benefited greatly from the input of other reviewers of diverse backgrounds who thoroughly examined various stages of the manuscript.

That the edition incorporates many new physiological concepts may come as a surprise to people who are unfamiliar with the field. Indeed, I am sometimes asked whether things change very much from one edition to the next. They doóand that is one of the reasons physiology is so exciting to study. I have tried to impart a sense of excitement by indicating, in a manner appropriate for this level of text, where knowledge is new and where gaps in our knowledge remain. Here follows a partial listing of the additions, updates, and areas of expanded coverage that shaped this sixth edition.

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