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School Library Journal
Reviewed on August 1, 2007
Gr 9-Up Students looking for simple, one-stop medical information may be frustrated by this overambitious attempt at an "integrative approach to both health and disease." The four volumes cover themed systems, as follows: "structures and functions that lead the body's way in the world" (skin, skeleton, eyes); those that "nourish, cleanse, and protect the body" (cardio, pulmonary, immune); biochemical functions (gastro, endocrine, reproductive); and a loose conglomeration of larger issues (prevention, genetics, drugs). Within volumes, major topics start with the system's biology and fun...Log In or Sign Up to Read More



