"Introduction to Human Disease: Pathophysiology for Health Professionals, Fifth Edition is a textbook of pathology that also focuses on clinical signs, symptoms and treatment in order to give students a more comprehensive view of human disease. This extensive, user-friendly text is well organized for comprehension and addresses the most common and significant diseases. For every major disease, a text box summarizes the cause, lesion and manifestations. Illustrations feature colorful line drawings and carefully selected gross photographs to augment the student s understanding of basic disease processes. Introduction to Human Disease: Pathophysiology for Health Professionals will help students understand the basic principles of human disease before going on to more detailed study. The full-color Fifth Edition features over 400 photos and illustrations to facilitate comprehension, clinically oriented information on diseases, clear-cut objectives at the beginning of each chapter, and review questions with multiple-choice answers at the end of each chapter. The features that made this textbook so popular through the first four editions have all been retained. Special chapters not usually found in other introductory human disease texts include Most Frequent and Significant Diseases, Diagnostic Resources, and Mental Illness."--publisher description.

Rev. ed. of: Introduction to human disease / Thomas H. Kent, Michael Noel Hart. 4th ed. c1998.

Overview -- Introduction to pathology -- Most frequent and significant diseases -- Diagnostic resources -- Basic disease processes -- Injury, inflammation, and repair -- Hyperplasias and neoplasms -- Cancer -- Genetic and developmental diseases -- Major organ-related diseases -- Vascular system -- Heart -- Hematopoietic system -- Bleeding and clotting disorders -- Lung -- Oral region, upper respiratory tract, and ear -- Gastrointestinal tract -- Liver, gallbladder, and pancreas -- Kidney, lower urinary tract, and male genital organs -- Female genital organs -- Breast -- Skin -- Eye -- Bones and joints -- Skeletal muscle and peripheral nerve -- Central nervous system -- Mental illness -- Endocrine system -- Multiple organ system diseases -- Infectious diseases -- Immunologic diseases -- Physical injury -- Chemical injury -- Nutritional disorders and alcoholism.