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The human body : how we fail, how we heal.

Call Number

  • DVD 616.07 H9181 (CEN)

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Edition

Full screen version.

Performers

Taught by Professor Anthony A. Goodman, Montana State University.

Publication Information

Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company, c2007.

Physical Description

4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guidebook (iv, 115 p. ; 19 cm.)

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

The body is a fortress under constant assault. It faces threats from infectious diseases, parasites, allergens, environmental toxins, physical trauma, and natural disasters from without, to overzealous allergic, immune, and inflammatory responses, and cellular mutations from within. This course is an introduction to the field of pathophysiology--the study of the disruptions in a normal body's functions caused by disease or injury. Beginning with an exploration of the function of cells and common forms of injury to them, the course then proceeds through examinations of inflammatory and immune responses, infectious diseases, shock, cancer, and wound healing. These lectures provide a viewer with tools to understand diseases and injuries and the body's reaction to them. Includes twenty-four lectures of thirty minutes each.

Notes

"The great courses, course no. 1564"--Disc label.

Course guidebook includes professor biography, disclaimer, statement of course scope, lecture outlines and notes, and bibliography.

Contents

  • How we fail ; Cell biology : Introduction and definitions ; Inflammation : Basic principles ; The inflammatory response ; Inflammation : Clinical manifestations ; The immune response
  • The immune response continued ; Hypersensitivity and the allergic response ; Infectious diseases : General introduction ; Bacteria ; Viruses ; Spirochetes, Rickettsiae, Chlamydiae, Prions.
  • Malaria ; Schistosomiasis, Filariasis, tapeworms ; Infectious diseases : Treatment ; Infectious diseases : Triumph and failure ; Shock : Principles and hypovolemic shock ; Categories of shock
  • Cancer : The enemy within ; Environmental carcinogens ; Mechanisms of carcinogenesis ; Invasion, metastasis, and angiogenesis ; Treatment : Surgery, radiation, chemotherapy ; How we heal.

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