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by Mohan B. Dikshit (Author)
The book is written system wise. The theme includes the way alterations are produced in normal physiology by disease, leading to the generation of symptoms and signs. This approach is expected to help the student appreciate the role of basic sciences in understanding the pathophysiology of disease. Simple flow charts and diagrams are used to explain the text. For each chapter there is a Short Questions-Answers module which offers explanation to the questions raised in the text. The book has been treated keeping in view the environmental and socio economic factors that control lives in India.
There has been no attempt to deal with every mundane subject in the field of physiology. In each chapter only certain aspects of the subject have been dealt with. The areas chosen are generally found interesting by most students. Two chapters namely Circadian Rhythms and Pathophysiology of Stress, and Pathophysiology of Thermoregulatory Disorders are new innovations. The aim of the book is to enthuse the student into thinking in "Clinical terms" using basic sciences as back drop and to conceptualize and derive conclusions rather than memorize facts.Author Biography
Professor Mohan Dikshit is an Indian Air Force Medical veteran, and an experienced Physiologist with teaching (under/postgraduate) and research experience of about four decades. He has contributed to India's space program as Head of Physiology at the Institute of Aerospace Medicine, IAF, was Head of Physiology at the Armed Forces Medical College Pune, Head of Cardiorespiratory Physiology, Patel Chest Institute Delhi, and later Principal of MIMER Medical College, and lead faculty Dept of Physiology, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman.
He has edited two medical journals, contributed numerous chapters to proceedings of conferences and workshops, and has many publications. He has tried to translate his love for innovative teaching and concept generation in this book which is addressed to preclinical medical students and their counterparts in allied sciences such as Dentistry, Pharmacy and Physiotherapy. The Professor believes this approach is more conducive to learning, and producing good general practitioners of medicine. This approach of teaching is practiced in most advanced medical schools and universities overseas. Prof Dikshit now lives in retirement in Pune, India.
