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Human Physiology: An Integrated Approach, 9th edition

Published by Pearson (June 2, 2025) © 2026

  • Dee Unglaub Silverthorn University of Texas, Austin

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Human Physiology: An Integrated Approach helps you construct for yourself a global view of the body, its systems, and the many processes that keep the systems working. Moving beyond straight memorization, it encourages you to develop skills in analyzing, synthesizing and evaluating information. The author builds on her active learning instruction style and integrates big-picture themes with the most current cellular and molecular physiology topics.

The 9th Edition extensively revises and increases coverage of the immune system in light of the global SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. It focuses more heavily on the Core Concepts of Physiology organized in the book’s 4 units, and adds new visual learning aids to help you integrate and navigate those concepts. Updated and added discussion and research are incorporated throughout, including reflex loops, body mass index (BMI), airway epithelial cells, cystic fibrosis, oxytocin and autism, COVID-19 and loss of taste and smell, and much more.

Table of contents

I. Basic Cell Processes: Integration and Coordination

  • 1. Introduction to Physiology
  • 2. Molecular Interaction
  • 3. Compartmentation: Cells and Tissues
  • 4. Energy and Cellular Metabolism
  • 5. Membrane Dynamics
  • 6. Communication, Integration, and Homeostasis

II. Homeostasis and Control

  • 7. The Immune System
  • 8. Introduction to the Endocrine System
  • 9. Neurons: Cellular and Network Properties
  • 10. The Central Nervous System
  • 11. Sensory Physiology
  • 12. Efferent Division: Autonomic and Somatic Motor Control
  • 13. Muscles
  • 14. Integrative Physiology I: Control of Body Movement

III. Integration of Function

  • 15. Cardiovascular Physiology
  • 16. Blood Flow and the Control of Blood Pressure
  • 17. Blood 18. Mechanics of Breathing
  • 19. Gas Exchange and Transport
  • 20. The Kidneys
  • 21. Integrative Physiology II: Fluid and Electrolyte Balance

IV. Metabolism, Growth, and Aging

  • 22. The Digestive System
  • 23. Metabolism and Energy Balance
  • 24. Endocrine Control of Growth and Metabolism
  • 25. Integrative Physiology III: Exercise
  • 26. Reproduction and Development

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