Complete Book of the Human Body

by Claybourne, Anna; Moncrieff, Stephen; Percival, Juliet; Brooks, Felicity

• ISBN13: 9780794506285
• ISBN10: 0794506283
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-01
• Publisher: Edc Pub

Summary

Text and illustrations offer a detailed look at human anatomy and physiology, with Internet links for further information.

Table of Contents

Body Building Blocks	6	(10)
Your amazing body	8	(2)
Body systems	10	(2)
Cells	12	(2)
Genes and DNA	14	(2)
Muscles and Bones	16	(13)
The skeleton	18	(2)
Joints	20	(2)
Muscles and tendons	22	(2)
How muscles work	24	(2)
Moving without thinking	26	(2)
Reflexes	28	(1)
Skin, Hair and Nails	29	(7)
What is skin?	30	(2)
Skin changes	32	(2)
Hair and nails	34	(2)
The Brain and the Senses	36	(17)
Your amazing brain	38	(2)
How the brain works	40	(2)
Seeing	42	(2)
Hearing	44	(2)
Tasting and smelling	46	(2)
Sensation and pain	48	(2)
Thinking	50	(2)
Fool your brain	52	(1)
Breathing and Circulation	53	(12)
Breathing equipment	54	(2)
Inside your lungs	56	(2)
The heart	58	(2)
Circulation	60	(2)
In the blood	62	(2)
The lymphatic system	64	(1)
Eating and Drinking	65	(9)
Taking in food	66	(2)
In your stomach	68	(2)
In the intestines	70	(2)
Waste	72	(2)
Health and Medicine	74	(13)
Health and sickness	76	(2)
Diseases	78	(2)
The immune system	80	(2)
Drugs and treatments	82	(2)
Operations	84	(2)
Complementary medicine	86	(1)
Body Changes	87	(9)
Conception and birth	88	(2)
Growing up	90	(2)
Hormones	92	(2)
Getting old	94	(2)
Facts and Figures	96	(12)
Facts, figures and records	98	(2)
Timeline	100	(1)
Who's who	101	(1)
Experiments and activities	102	(2)
Glossary	104	(4)
Index	108	(4)
Acknowledgements	112