Human Anatomy Laboratory Manual with Cat Dissections

Description

For the one-semester human anatomy laboratory course.

Everything students need for a successful lab experience

With 30 exercises covering all body systems, a clear, engaging writing style, and full-color illustrations, Human Anatomy Laboratory Manual with Cat Dissections, 9th Edition provides everything needed for a successful lab experience. Visual Summary Tables present complex information, and “Why This Matters” boxes help students relate the lab activity to a real-life or clinical example. 

The 9th Edition features new Clinical Application Questionsthatchallenge students to apply lab concepts and critical-thinking skills to real-world clinical scenarios. And new full-color illustrations and photos replace many black and white line drawings to help students differentiate among structures and more easily interpret diagrams. The lab manual complies with the illustration and presentation style of Human Physiology text, but can be paired with any human anatomy textbook.

New and additional features of this title

• NEW: Clinical Application Questions are part of the Exercise Review Sheets, challenging students to apply lab concepts and critical thinking skills to real-world clinical scenarios.
• NEW: Dozens of full-color illustrations and photos replace many black and white line drawings.
• Laboratory Review Sheets at the end of each exercise ask students to label diagrams and answer multiple-choice, short-answer and essay questions.
• All laboratory instructions and procedures incorporate the latest precautions from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and are reinforced by the laboratory safety procedures inside the front cover and in the Instructor’s Guide. 
• A safety icon notifies students that they are to observe specific safety precautions when using certain equipment or conducting particular lab procedures, such as wearing gloves to handle body fluids including blood, urine and saliva.
• A wide variety of laboratory exercises and activities provide hands-on lab experience and include organ and body dissection activities for the cat, sheep, and cow. Human and cat anatomy dissection photographs/plates are also included. Plus the Organ Systems Overview dissection exercise includes instruction on rat and human dissection with color photographs of both.

About our authors

Elaine N. Marieb received her Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and joined the faculty of the Biological Science Division of Holyoke Community College. While teaching at Holyoke Community College, where many of her students were pursuing nursing degrees, she developed a desire to better understand the relationship between the scientific study of the human body and the clinical aspects of the nursing practice. To that end, while continuing to teach full time, Dr. Marieb pursued her nursing education, which culminated in a Master of Science degree with a clinical specialization in gerontology from the University of Massachusetts. It is this experience that has informed the development of the unique perspective and accessibility for which her publications are known.

Dr. Marieb has given generously to provide opportunities for students to further their education. She funds the E.N. Marieb Science Research Awards at Mount Holyoke College, which promotes research by undergraduate science majors, and has underwritten renovation of the biology labs in Clapp Laboratory at that college. Dr. Marieb also contributes to the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where she provided funding for reconstruction and instrumentation of a cutting-edge cytology research laboratory. Recognizing the severe national shortage of nursing faculty, she underwrites the Nursing Scholars of the Future Grant Program at the university.

In 2012 and 2017, Dr. Marieb gave generous philanthropic support to Florida Gulf Coast University as a long-term investment in education, research, and training for healthcare and human services professionals in the local community. In honor of her contributions, the university is now home to the Elaine Nicpon Marieb College of Health and Human Services.

Lori A. Smith received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of California at Davis. Before discovering her passion for teaching, she worked as a research scientist and project leader in the medical diagnostics industry. In 1999, she joined the faculty at American River College in the Biology Department. Currently she teaches anatomy and physiology and microbiology to pre-nursing and mortuary science students at American River College. Starting in 2005, she began co-authoring Pearson’s PhysioEx: Laboratory Simulations in Physiology and has continued to co-author several versions of the software and lab manual. Dr. Smith has been awarded “Instructor of the Year” by the American River College Associated Students for her commitment to serving students, and she is a member of the Human Anatomy and Physiology Society (HAPS) and the National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT).

For the one-semester human anatomy laboratory course.

Everything students need for a successful lab experience

With 30 exercises covering all body systems, a clear, engaging writing style, and full-color illustrations, Human Anatomy Laboratory Manual with Cat Dissections, 9th Edition provides everything needed for a successful lab experience. Visual Summary Tables present complex information, and “Why This Matters” boxes help students relate the lab activity to a real-life or clinical example. 

The 9th Edition features new Clinical Application Questions that challenge students to apply lab concepts and critical-thinking skills to real-world clinical scenarios. And new full-color illustrations and photos replace many black and white line drawings to help students differentiate among structures and more easily interpret diagrams. The lab manual complies with the illustration and presentation style of a Human Anatomy text, but can be paired with any human anatomy textbook.

Hallmark features of this title

• Visual Summary Tables condense complex information into tables and streamline background information, allowing space to write and draw in the manual.
• Why This Matters boxes relate the lab activity to a real-life or clinical example in 8 different lab exercises that include corresponding questions in the Review Sheets.
• Group Challenge activities ask students to find the relationships between anatomical structures in order to understand anatomy at a deeper level and enhance critical-thinking skills.
• The homeostatic imbalance icon appears where a clinical disorder is described to indicate what happens when there is a loss of homeostasis.
• Pre-lab Quizzes motivate students to prepare for lab by asking basic information they should know before doing the lab.