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The Oxford Companion to the Body
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The Oxford Companion to the Body

Colin Blakemore, Sheila Jennett

The Oxford Companion to the Body is a fascinating and authoritative guide to every aspect of the body. It provides concise and readable accounts of the structure and function of all the major systems of the body and the causes of disorders that affect them. Interwoven with this coverage of the science of the body, are entertaining and informative articles on social and religious attitudes to the body, and its significance for artists, philosophers and writers.

Bibliographic Information

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Print Publication Date:
2001
Print ISBN-13:
9780198524038
Published to Oxford Reference:
2003
Current Online Version:
2003
eISBN:
9780191727511

Authors

Colin Blakemore, author

Sheila Jennett, author

Colin Blakemore is Professor of Physiology and Director of the Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Oxford. His research focuses on vision and the development of the brain, and he has written and broadcast on many issues, ranging from consciousness and mad cow disease, to mobile phones and ethical issues in medical research.

Sheila Jennett is Emeritus Professor of Physiology and Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow. Starting from a background in clinical medicine, her research interest in breathing and blood flow has included responses to high and low oxygen and to exercise.

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