Embryology

Langman's Medical Embryology

The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access (Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology)

This popular text makes it surprisingly easy to gain an in-depth understanding of human embryology. Engaging and richly illustrated, it examines all aspects of human development, emphasizing both basic concepts and relevant clinical problems. The book presents a week-by-week and stage-by-stage view of how fetal organs and systems develop, why and when birth defects occur, and what roles the placenta and fetal membranes play in development. The comprehensively updated 8th edition comes with access to the complete contents online via Student Consult, plus 18 phenomenal embryology animations, additional review questions and answers, and more.

• Editor Keith L. Moore, BA, MSc, PhD, FIAC, FRSM is the recipient of the first (2007) "Henry Gray/Elsevier Distinguished Educator Award"the American Association of Anatomists' highest award for excellence in human anatomy education at the medical/dental, graduate, and undergraduate level of teachinga testament to his masterful teaching abilities, which help make this book such an effective tool for learning the complex subject of human embryology.
  
• Comprehensive, richly illustrated, and clinically oriented coverage equips you with a detailed grasp of human embryology.
  
• More than 1,800 crisp illustrations and up-to-date clinical photos bring the material to life.
  
• Review questions and answers at the end of each chapter test your knowledge and help you prepare for exams.

• Sweeping updates reflect all of the latest advances, including IVF, cloning, and genes in human development.
  
• Purchase of this Student Consult title includes access to the full contents online at www.studentconsult.comas well as 18 remarkable, specially developed animations that bring embryological development to life, and hundreds of additional support questions and answers to test your mastery of the material.
  
• New contributors provide fresh perspectives on the latest knowledge.
  
• A new, more user-friendly, full-color format makes it easier than ever to master key embryology concepts.

High-Yield™ Embryology: A Collaborative Project of Medical Students and Faculty (High-Yield™ Series)

BRS Embryology (Board Review Series)

The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology

This best-selling resource comprehensively covers human embryology and teratology, presenting all of the complex clinical and scientific concepts in an engaging, lucid, and practical way. Completely revised and updated, the 7th Edition consistently emphasizes the clinical aspects by using a wealth of case studies, clinical correlations, and hundreds of outstanding illustrations.

• Features a wealth of clinical case studiesand hundreds of color photgraphsenabling readers to relate what they are learning to clinical practice.
  
• Contains a chapter on birth defects that can be used as a "mini textbook" on the subject.

• Integrates the molecular aspects of embryonic development, including information on stem cells · homeobox genes · gamete formation · regulation control and the molecules/receptors involved · gene activity and expression · and more.
  
• Includes illustrations of new diagnostic procedures, including sonographs, MRIs, electron micrographs, 3D images, and clinical photographs.
  
• Includes the new terminology developed for embryologythe Terminoligica Embryologica.
  
• Presents completely revised and updated Clinically Oriented Questions and Answers based on the current requirements of the USMLE Step 1.
  
• Has been reviewed by leading geneticists and pediatricians to ensure that all of the information reflects the realities of clinical practice.

Your Developing Baby, Conception to Birth (Harvard Medical School Guides)

Awarded the iParenting Media Award for Excellent Product of 2008!

Experience the miracle of life-with your own eyes

Congratulations, parents-to-be! You're about to embark on a momentous journey. Even more exciting, you're the first generation of parents who-thanks to 3D and conventional ultrasound-can actually “see” your child before he or she is born. This wonderful, one-of-a-kind guide, written by two Harvard professors, takes you through every stage of your baby's development, from conception to delivery-with more than 200 images and drawings to illustrate each glorious moment.

Get a guided tour of a baby's journey with:

• Breathtaking 3D images of babies' faces, limbs, and other features
• Detailed 2D ultrasounds of developing organs and bones inside the body
• Visual pointers on what to look for, and what you're seeing, on the screen

With this illuminating guide, you'll be able to see how doctors determine if your baby is a boy or girl and whether you're having twins or multiples. You'll be able to watch the growth of your baby's hands, feet, heart, head, and more. Best of all, you'll be able to actively participate in the greatest journey of all: from single cell to bringing a new baby into the world.

Visit www.YourDevelopingBaby.com for more information.

Library Journal starred review:
"Using 250 diagnostic ultrasound images, Harvard radiology professors Doubilet and Carol B. Benson present a marvelous book charting the growth of babies in the womb. . . . The authors well explain the different types of ultrasound and their medical uses, especially the 3D images that show the baby’s outer surface and the 2D images revealing the internal development of organs. This virtual tour of a life in the making will attract future parents in droves."
--Janet M. Schneider, James A. Haley Veterans’ Hospital, Tampa, FL

Sciencenews.org:
" . . . an accessible and captivating text that guides readers through 9 months of pregnancy."

Before We Are Born: Essentials of Embryology and Birth Defects With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access (Before We Are Born: Essentials of Embryology & Birth Defects)

Zero in on the most essential concepts in human embryology and development! Concise and richly illustrated, this popular book delivers the embryology knowledge you need in a highly efficient, reader-friendly format. The comprehensively updated 7th edition comes with access to the complete contents online via Student Consult, plus 18 phenomenal embryology animations, additional review questions and answers, and more

• Editor Keith L. Moore, BA, MSc, PhD, FIAC, FRSM is the recipient of the first (2007) "Henry Gray/Elsevier Distinguished Educator Award"the American Association of Anatomists' highest award for excellence in human anatomy education at the medical/dental, graduate, and undergraduate level of teachinga testament to his masterful teaching abilities, which help make this book such an effective tool for learning the complex subject of human embryology.
  
• Succinct coverage focuses on the most need-to-know human embryology concepts.
  
• Over 1,300 crisp illustrations and up-to-date clinical photos bring the material to life.
  
• Review questions and answers at the end of each chapter test your knowledge and help you prepare for exams.

• Sweeping updates reflect all of the latest advances, including IVF, cloning, and genes in human development.
  
• Purchase of this Student Consult title includes access to the full contents online at www.studentconsult.comas well as 18 remarkable, specially developed animations that bring embryological development to life, and hundreds of additional support questions and answers to test your mastery of the material.
  
• New contributors provide a wealth of fresh perspectives on the latest knowledge.
  
• A new, more user-friendly, full-color format helps you master key embryology concepts more easily than ever, and a smaller size makes the book more portable.

Embryo: A Defense of Human Life

The bitter national debates over abortion, euthanasia, and stem cell research have created an unbridgeable gap between religious groups and those who insist that faith-based views have no place in public policy. Religious conservatives are so adamantly opposed to stem cell research in particular that President Bush issued the first veto of his presidency over a bill that would have provided federal funding for such research.

Now, in this timely consideration of the nature and rights of human embryos, Robert P. George and Christopher Tollefsen make a persuasive case that we as a society should neither condone nor publicly fund embryonic stem cell research of any kind.

Typically, right-to-life arguments have been based explicitly on moral and religious grounds. In Embryo, the authors eschew religious arguments and make a purely scientific and philosophical case that the fetus, from the instant of conception, is a human being, with all the moral and political rights inherent in that status. As such, stem cell research that destroys a viable embryo represents the unacceptable taking of a human life.

There is also no room in their view for a “moral dualism” that regards being a “person” as merely a stage in a human life span. An embryo does not exist in a “prepersonal” stage that does not merit the inviolable rights otherwise ascribed to persons. Instead, the authors argue, the right not to be intentionally killed is inherent in the fact of being a human being, and that status begins at the moment of conception.

Moreover, just as none should be excluded from moral and legal protections based on race, sex, religion, or ethnicity, none should be excluded on the basis of age, size, or stage of biological development.

George and Tollefsen fearlessly grapple with the political, scientific, and cultural consequences arising from their position and offer a summary of scientific alternatives to embryonic stem cell research. They conclude that the state has an ethical and moral obligation to protect embryonic human beings in just the same manner that it protects every other human being, and they advocate for embryo adoption—the only ethical solution to the problem of spare embryos resulting from in-vitro fertilization.

Larsen's Human Embryology: With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access

This book presents in-depth coverage of both the clinical and molecular biological aspects of human development. It examines the relationship between basic science and embryology, and describes potential clinical disorders arising out of embryologic problems. A strong clinical focus, practical design, and superb artworkwith more than 150 images new to this editionallow for quick comprehension and easy application of the latest knowledge in this rapidly advancing field. A user-friendly design enables you to review the material in several ways, and online access to Student Consult enhances your study of the subject and exponentially boosts your reference power.

• Follows a user-friendly design allowing students to review material in flexible ways and instructors to tailor the book to their specific needs.
  
• Reflects the most current advances in molecular biology and genetics.
  
• Offers chapters with illustrated timelines of the relevant embryologic stage.
  
• Contains a high-quality full-color art program, with excellent line diagrams with a three-dimensional aspect, many color photographs of clinical disorders, excellent black and white electronphotomicrographs, and line drawings showing sequential stages of development.

• Presents clinical cases in each chapter that place the content into a real-life context.
  
• Begins each chapter with a summary providing at-a-glance reference to key information.
  
• Features Clinical Tasters following the summaries at the start of each chapter that present a clinical case example related to the material for that chapter.
  
• Offers new chapters covering morphogenesis and dysmorphogenesis, for expanded explanations of the making of an embryo, focusing on cell-cell signaling pathways.
  
• Emphasizes important content through clinical (In the Clinic) and research (In the Lab) boxes many new to this edition.
  
• Concludes each chapter with lists of references for further in-depth study.
  
• Includes access to Student Consult at www.studentconsult.com, where you'll find the complete text and illustrations of the book online, and fully searchable "Integration Links" to bonus content in other Student Consult titles 200 USMLE-style questions to help you assess your mastery of the material embryology animations that bring the topic to life and much more!

Fundamental Anatomy