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To assess the content, structural organization, and pedagogical balance of the newly revised multi-author edition of Howell's Textbook of Physiology.

June 28, 1947JAMA

Howell's Textbook of Physiology

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Book review evaluates the multi-author revision of Howell's textbook for medical students, highlighting needed expansions in endocrinology, hepatology, and aviation medicine.

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To assess the content, structural organization, and pedagogical balance of the newly revised multi-author edition of Howell's Textbook of Physiology.
Textual evaluation of the forty-first-anniversary edition rewritten by a collaborative group of Yale physiology specialists.
Curricular appraisal of topical depth, clinical relevance to medicine, and page allocation across physiological subdisciplines.
The revision successfully updates the legacy text into a readable, authoritative, and modernized resource while retaining its core traditional organization.
The volume exhibits notable structural imbalances, allocating over one-third of total pages to the nervous system while omitting dedicated chapters on the liver, general endocrinology outside reproduction, and aviation physiology.

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synapsesocial.com/papers/6a7952deb2ad017e40320841 https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1947.02880260096035

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Book review evaluates the multi-author revision of Howell's textbook for medical students, highlighting needed expansions in endocrinology, hepatology, and aviation medicine.

Howell's Textbook of Physiology

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