Seeley/Anatomy and Physiology

Key Revision Changes

Art Program
An estimated 35% of this art program will be new, and the other 65% will be heavily revised. Because leader lines and labels will have to be put into the WCB/McGraw-Hill style, all the art will have to be revised. Many pieces will be created new because of changes the authors have made to the manuscript and due to the lack of workable files being transferred over. The illustrations will now be color-coordinated for consistent style, figure legends will be shortened, and some illustrations will be resized to conserve space. The major complaint of the 3/e by both the authors and the adopters was in the art program.
Design
Along with the new art program, the text will have a whole new design which will be more attractive and more in line with the WCB/McGraw-Hill standard of textbook design.
Homeostasis Figures
New to this edition will be approximately 15-20 homeostasis figures that take complicated concepts and place the information in easy-to-use flowcharts. Most texts have complicated graphs that visually try to explain the concepts. These are often very hard to understand. In general, the figures in Seeley et al. will simplify how major physiological states are maintained within their normal parameters.
Systems Pathologies
Also new to this edition are Systems Pathologies which will be added in each systems chapter in the form of modified case studies. They will be designed to show how each system is influenced by the condition emphasized in the case study. The emphasis on problem solving, which has been a theme of the text from the beginning will be continued by the addition of a predict question with each of the systems pathologies. This material will replace the Systemic Interaction charts found in the 3/e. The chapters that will have a Systems Pathology reading include 5, 6, 10, 13, 18, 20, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, and 28.
Multimedia Tie-ins
The 4/e will be correlated to the Life Science Animations Videotape Series and The Dynamic Human CD-ROM.
Clinical Updates
All asides and essays will be updated where appropriate.
Chapter 9
This chapter is being totally revised to reflect the latest research involving receptor response and membrane potential. The chapter used to be entitled Membrane Potentials. To reflect the important changes in the chapter, it will now be entitled Receptor Responses and Membrane Potential. This chapter has been totally overhauled and much of the art is new to this chapter. This chapter allows the students to understand neuromuscular impulse conduction before studying muscle physiology. Most books cover this topic in the nervous system which doesn t allow the student to use this information when studying muscle physiology.
Icons
A new icon will be created to better highlight the Predict and Concept Questions.
Ancillaries
Now that this text is with WCB/McGraw-Hill, it will have more supplemental ancillaries to support it, such as the videotapes, videodiscs, and CD-ROMs that we offer with all the titles.
Student Study Art Notebook
Will be shrink-wrapped free with every textbook.
Glossary
The glossary has been totally revised to correct the pronunciations of each word. This was a problem in the third edition.

Other Key Features

The most cited feature that professors like about this text are the Predict Questions that emphasize critical thinking. This text has a bigger problem-solving emphasis than any other text on the market.
The organization of the Nervous System (central and then peripheral) is the most logical presentation, that most texts don t follow.
Text has a strong clinical focus. There are clinical focus boxes, clinical notes, and the new systems pathologies which help students apply the clinical information that they have learned.
A complete line of pedagogy - Objectives, Key Terms, Related Topics, Bold-Faced Terms, Predict Questions, Tables, Clinical Notes, Clinical Focus Boxes, Summaries, Systems Pathologies Boxes, Concept Questions - helps students organize their study.
Physiology summary tables organize the steps of a physiological process. These tables help students learn the more complex concepts like protein synthesis, mitosis, and nerve conduction.
The relationship between structure and function is stressed consistently. Students can appreciate why the body works as it does.
Predict and Concept Questions encourage critical thinking. Students apply and reinforce what they have just learned.
The text has been extensively rewritten and updated to provide the most current and usable material possible.