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The Body Book By Alan E.Nourse and the editors of TIME-LIFE BOOKS

CONTENTS: 1. AUNIQUELY ADAPTABLE ORGANISM 2. HALLMARKS OF INDIVIDUAL IDENTIY 3.THE TEAM OF BONE AND MUSCLE 4.THE HEART AND ITS COURIERS 5.FUELING THE BODY MACHINERY 6.THE VITAL PAIRS:LUNGS AND KIDNEYS 7.A NETWORK THAT NEVER SLEEPS 8.THE PRODUCTIVE POWER OF HORMONES

INTRODUCTION: Most of us- particularly artists and people in love -have some esthetic appreciation of the body outward form. Few of us take the time to understand  its inner structure and functions-which are far more complex than any computer or mechanical invention,yet simple and economical in pricipal. Form and functions meld to produce a body of great efficient and almost incredible flexiblility. With a body less efficient and less flexible, man could not withstand the strains of living in a world where he is constantly forced to adapt himself to everything from pesticides,drugs,tobacco and automobiles automobiles to the weightless,oxygenless,foodless world of outer space. But the body,at least is comprehensible to science.Unfortunately,scientists do not always make themseleves comprehensible to the lay public. This book does.No layman can read it without an increased understanding of the body. Understanding the body leads to increased admiration and respect for it,and such admiration and respect leads,for most of us I suspect,to greater awe of its Maker.

-Irvine H. Page, M.D.                                                                                                                         The Cleveland Clinic