Pursuing a career as a health care professional? Need to understand how the human body works? No problem ? this hands?on workbook gets you up to speed in anatomy and physiology facts in a focused, step?by?step manner. From cells and tissue to the specific muscle groups to the largest organ (the skin), this easy?to?follow primer helps you understand the intricacies of the body and how all its systems work together.

• Quick refresher explanations

• Step?by?step procedures

• Hands?on practice exercises

• Ample workspace to work out problems

• Tear?out Cheat Sheet

• A dash of humor and fun

See How To

• Reinforce your knowledge through memory exercises

• Keep track of confusing terms with strategies for fast translation and understanding

• Know what instructors tend to emphasize on exams

Pat DuPree taught anatomy/physiology, biology, medical terminology, and environmental science for 24 years at several colleges and universities in Los Angeles County. She holds two undergraduate life science degrees and a master?s degree from Auburn University and conducted cancer research at Southern Research Institute in Birmingham, Alabama, before joining the Muscogee Health Department in Columbus, Georgia. In 1970, she moved to Redondo Beach, California, where she was a university instructor and raised her two sons, Dave Dupree and Mark DuPree. Now Pat is retired and lives on lovely Pine Lake in rural Georgia with her husband, Dr. James E. DuPree.