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Long respected for its scientifically rigorous approach, this best-selling text now includes major updates to bring you all of the latest knowledge in the field. Honed and shortened to emphasize the core information needed by students of physiology today, it also features a new full-color design and all-new full-color artwork to enhance readability and enrich your comprehension of every concept. With access to the full contents online at Student Consult, this time-honored book delivers an in-depth understanding of physiology more powerfully and effectively than ever before.An organ system-based approach clearly describes all of the mechanisms that control and regulate bodily function.Key experimental observations and examples provide a rich understanding of the body's dynamic processes.Student Consult access allows you to view the complete contents of the book online, anywhere you go, perform quick searches, tap into relevant bonus content from other Student Consult titles, test your understanding with USMLE-style review questions, add your own notes and bookmarks, and much more.Updated coverage throughout helps expand your understanding of the most current trends in physiology and medicine, including the latest cellular and molecular knowledge. Shaded boxes highlight and explain important clinical and molecular information.New section editors ensure that you are getting the freshest, most clinically relevant information available today. Key Points sections pinpoint the most need-to-know information in each chapter.Your purchase entitles you to access the website until the next edition is published, or until the current edition is no longer offered for sale by Elsevier, whichever occurs first. If the next edition is published less than one year after your purchase, you will be entitled to online access for one year from your date of purchase. Elsevier reserves the right to offer a suitable replacement product (such as a downloadable or CD-ROM-based electronic version) should access to the website be discontinued.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 9 reviews)

depends on audience by Dr. A.M.

4 Stars
September 11, 2009
The key to selecting a useful textbook for physiology lies in knowing the depth of knowledge you actually need. Having gone through med school and learnt physiology as part of the course, i actually found that Berne & Levy was really too detailed to use as a primary text. I used B&L, Ganong, and Guyton primarily as references when i needed more in depth detail on certain topics. An excellent book for undergraduates is a text by the author Sherwood. This book gives an excellent conceptual account of human physiology, so that you understand the principles. In books like B&L, it's easy to lose the big picture in all the detail, particularly as a student when it's all new material. Having said that, i'm now using B&L along with several other texts to study for my anesthesiology exams. It undoubtedly has the best cardiovascular chapter of any physiology text. Take home message is that if you are studying physiology for postgraduate purposes, you'll probably need B&L as well as several other texts. As a student, i'd recommend using a more basic text and consulting B&L for the fine print.

poor writing makes it tough by Michael J. Pottash

1 Stars
April 13, 2009
Poor writing and editing makes this book overly difficult to read and thus grasp new and difficult concepts. I was forced to consistently reread a sentence several times to understand what it was saying because of subject-verb -adjective confusion, problems that should be absent in a text dealing with tough material. Many typos etc. make this a poor choice for learning physiology.

Berne and Levy Physiology: with STUDENT CONSULT Online Access (Physiology (Berne)) (Purchased on 01/26/2009) by Sergei V. Karnup

5 Stars
February 27, 2009
Excellent book, volume is optimized with the information. Illustrations are very easy to understand and memorize. However in a few occasions I noticed a tendency to postulate something without an explanation or references what term and why was taken (e.g. formulas in the molecular section). Probably it is done for the sake of shortness, and in the assumption, that medical students in any case are not willing to understand the underlying physics.

costanzo vs. berne and levy by barto

3 Stars
December 13, 2008
while some referred to this book as "burn it and leave it," they were the one's who'd like to sworn in by contanzo in court. our physio dept required this book, but most people stuck with constanzo and in the end they were the smart ones. berne and levy gives great descriptions, but should be used as a reference book, you cant read through this book like you might be able to do with constanzo. in the end, i'd stick with costanzo if i were you.

Good...but not the best. by Ryan J. David (Oregon, USA)

4 Stars
November 03, 2008
This Physiology text is a great book for those studying mid and upper level human physiology. It has a very organized way of introducing the material and covers the topics well. Additionally, it makes good use of many clear cartoon illustrations of hard to memorize pathways and difficult to understand concepts. That being said, the book lacks the detail that a medical or research physiologist would want to have. I have taken several physiology courses as both an undergraduate and graduate student and have found this text to be lacking when compared to that of Boron and Boulpaep. It doesn't cover the receptors in nearly as much detail, and many pathways are simply mentioned and never explained. If you really want to know what is going on, you would have to supplement this text (or to a degree any text) with a review of current journal materials.

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