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Levick's Introduction to Cardiovascular Physiology

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Levick's Introduction to Cardiovascular Physiology offers a clear and comprehensive overview of cardiovascular physiology, essential for understanding cardiovascular diseases, exercise performance, and various human physiological processes. This sixth edition highlights the application of state-of-the-art technology in exploring cardiovascular function, making it ideal for undergraduate students in physiology, biomedical science, and medicine, as well as for graduate study programmes.
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Recommended for undergraduate and graduate students studying physiology, biomedical science, and medicine, as well as professionals interested in cardiovascular science and health.

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This book provides an accessible introduction to how the cardiovascular system works in health and disease, offering information needed by students and medical examination candidates in a clear, logical, and well-illustrated manner, with many useful line diagrams and tables that support the text and provide proof of concept.

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A sound knowledge of cardiovascular physiology is fundamental to understanding cardiovascular disease, exercise performance, and many other aspects of human physiology. Cardiovascular physiology is a major component of all undergraduate courses in physiology, biomedical science, and medicine. This popular introduction to the subject is intended primarily for these students.

A key feature of this sixth edition of Levick's Introduction to Cardiovascular Physiology is how state-of-the-art technology is applied to understanding cardiovascular function in health and disease. Thus, the text is also well-suited to graduate study programmes in medicine and physiological sciences.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780815363613

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 10 April 2018

Country: United States

Imprint: CRC Press Inc

Edition: 6th edition

Illustration: 270 Illustrations, color

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 210.0mm

Height: 280.0mm

Weight: 990g

Pages: 448

About the Author

Neil Herring completed his PhD and medical degree both from the University of Oxford. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Oxford, Consultant Cardiologist at the John Radcliffe Hospital, and Tutor and Fellow of Keble College, Oxford. He has published over 60 peer reviewed original research articles and reviews, and is co-author of the textbooks "Basic Science for Core Medical Training" (highly commended at the BMA Book Awards 2016) and "Levick's Introduction to Cardiovascular Physiology". David J. Paterson is Professor of Physiology and Head of the Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. He graduated from the Universities of Otago (NZ), Western Australia and Oxford, gaining his D.Phil from Oxford and D.Sc from the University of Western Australia. He is a group leader in the British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence at Oxford, and is Honorary Director of the Burdon Sanderson Cardiac Science Centre in his Department. As a cardiac neurobiologist, his research focuses on the neural control of the cardiovascular system in normal and diseased states. In 2014 he was made an Honorary Fellow of The Royal Society of New Zealand, and in 2018 was awarded the Carl Ludwig Distinguished Lectureship from the American Physiological Society. He was recently Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Physiology, and is a Fellow of The Physiological Society, Royal Society of Medicine, and Royal Society of Biology.

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