Book of the month

Knobil and Neill's Physiology of Reproduction, vols 1&2. Third edition 2006.

This 3rd edition is the first new one in ten years. It includes coverage of molecular levels of detail arising from the last decade's explosion of information at this level of organismic organization. Several new chapters have been added on the topic of pregnancy, reflecting the vigorous investigation of this topic during the last decade. The information covered includes both human and experimental animals; basic principles are sought, and information at the organismic and molecular levels are presented. Jimmy Neill, editor-in-chief says “What is different and important about this book is that the molecular detail that has been gathered since the last edition has been woven into an understanding of how organisms and organ systems work. That’s what I hope physiology really means; that you understand a whole organism as well as its organs, its tissues, its cells, and the molecular details underlying that.”