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Title: Understanding Pathophysiology by Sue E. Huether, Kathryn L. McCance ISBN: 0-323-00791-0 Publisher: Mosby Pub. Date: 15 May, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $74.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.12 (8 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Probably not the authors' fault
Comment: This was the prescribed textbook for a class I took in nursing school. I found it very difficult and unpleasant to read, as did most of my classmates. Halfway through the semester, someone introduced me to another book by the same authors, called "Pathophysiology: The Biologic Basis for Disease in Adults & Children" (4th edition, ISBN 0-323-01438-0). This book is twice as long as "Understanding Pathophysiology" and is much easier to understand. It is a sheer pleasure to read. I would give it five stars without hesitation.
I suspect that "Understanding Pathophysiology" is a condensation of "Pathophysiology: The Biologic Basis for Disease in Adults & Children" and that the publishers mistakenly thought they were making things easier for students by leaving some details out.
It may seem paradoxical, but I think it would take less time to read the big book than the small one.
Rating: 1
Summary: Analyze this
Comment: Rather than giving my opinion on this book, I would like to quote a typical paragraph. If you like it, you will probably like the book, but if you don't, you probably won't:
"An altered level of arousal (awareness) with acute onset may be caused by various factors (i.e. structural arousal alteration, metabolic arousal alteration, psychogenic arousal alteration). Structural causes are divided according to whether the original location of the pathologic condition is above or below the tentorial plate. Pathologic processes include infectious, vascular, neoplastic, traumatic, congenital (developmental), degenerative, polygenic, and metabolic causes. Metabolic causes are further divided into hypoxia, electrolyte disturbances, hypoglycemia, drugs, and toxins (both endogenous and exogenous). All the systemic diseases that eventually produce nervous system dysfunction are part of this metabolic category. Alterations in arousal range from slight drowsiness to coma" (page 356).
Rating: 5
Summary: A postive guide in a complex world.
Comment: Understanding pathophysiology requires years of study and practice, believe me I know. As a practicing RN/APRN and pathophysiology teacher at a local college - I have come to rely on Huether & McCance to guide myself and students through this complex subject. Give the book and authors the credit due for making sense of a difficult and oft times frustrating topic. "Understanding Pathophysiology" is everything the title promotes it to be.
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Title: Understanding Pathophysiology by Clayton F. Parkinson ISBN: 0323007929 Publisher: Mosby Pub. Date: December, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Understanding Pathophysiology (Study Guide and Workbook) by Sue Huether, Kathryn McCance, Clayton Parkinson ISBN: 0323028462 Publisher: Mosby Pub. Date: 19 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Pharmacology for Nursing Care (Book with Access to Mosby's GenRx + Simon Website) by Richard A. Lehne, W B Saunders ISBN: 0721689973 Publisher: W B Saunders Pub. Date: 15 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $65.95 |
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Title: Fundamentals of Nursing (Book with CD-ROM) by Patricia A. Potter, Anne Griffin Perry, Anne G. Perry ISBN: 0323011411 Publisher: Mosby Pub. Date: 26 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $74.95 |
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Title: Calculate with Confidence (Book with CD-ROM) by Deborah Gray Morris, Deborah C., Morris Gray, Deborah C. Gray ISBN: 032301349X Publisher: Mosby Pub. Date: 15 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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