Talk:Human Physiology

Welcome! This book began as a class project in July 2006 with a small class of pre-nursing students. We knew nothing about how to create or edit a Wikibook, but we decided to do it anyway. We received a lot of help from the active Wikibooks community, and through the chaos a book emerged! I didn't teach physiology again until spring 2007, when we used this book as our textbook and improved upon it chapter by chapter. We are happy with our accomplishments, but the book could still be much improved. We need YOUR help to make this the best introductory physiology textbook available, not simply the best free physiology textbook. No other classrooms have adopted this book or used it significantly as far as I know. If you do use it or are considering using it, please send me a message, and we can discuss future directions for the book. Of course, even the casual reader should take the liberty of editing boldly and bravely. Here is a list of suggested ways to contribute if you are looking for a place to start. If you are new to editing Wikis, then please register on Wikibooks, and read through this editing help page.

Special pages for this book:
Here is a list of additional, special pages, that are used in this book, but which don't appear in the table of contents:


 * Template:Human Physiology
 * Category:Human Physiology
 * Human Physiology/Print Version
 * Human Physiology/Page List

These pages can be changed to anything you need them to be. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 12:26, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Please be careful downloading images!
This wikibook uses a lot of images, and most of these do not have copyright status tags. Without copyright status, images must be deleted! -- SB_Johnny | talk 03:53, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

This Book is Used as an Authoritative Text
Please be cautious when editing or changing this resource as it is now a permanent part of the Free Open University Curriculum. Thanks for all the good work. Freeopenuniversity (talk) 20:03, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Wow! This is a real honor! I'd love to learn more about Free Open University! I'll have to look into it. Provophys (talk) 18:10, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

suggested merge
I suggest merging the "Medical Physiology" wikibook into the "Human Physiology" wikibook. Both books discuss the same topic and have about the same target audience, right? --DavidCary (talk) 17:56, 31 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Does Medical Physiology have any content? Would it even be worth doing? Sethwoodworth (talk) 21:30, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
 * As a primary author of the human physiology book, I would welcome any content from the medical physiology book, but recognize that it may be appropriate to have two books. I would like our book to be more rigorous, but perhaps the intended depth for the medical physiology textbook would overwhelm undergraduate students (my primary audience). In looking at the renal physiology chapter, I liked the focus on medical application, rather than just description. I would like to hear from the creator of the medical physiology textbook whether he/she thinks that the goals of the book could be reached simply by adding content to what we already have put together. I would enjoy collaborating on a project to improve the existing book if it would serve the purpose. Provophys (talk) 17:48, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Medical physiology tends to be much more indepth and intense than Human physiology - also human physiology tends to focus on how the system works when healthy, and medical physiology does that and then takes it a step further and covers pathophysiology. Totally different aims. I vote for keeping them seperate. And if the renal chapter is anything to go by, the Medical physiology could become a good wikibook in its own right. To be honest, merging these would be like merging a book on Bach with a book on Mozart simply because they both deal with famous composers....


 * I agree with the readers who think that Medical Physiology should be separate from Human physiology. Although there is a lot of overlap, the former is aimed really at medical students - and thus should be more detailed, the latter should be sused as a primary text. Medical Physiology should have sections on Clinical Physiology, either as a separate section, dispersed through the text or both.Boumphreyfr (talk) 16:17, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Problem Sets
Ideas to make this the greatest book on Human Physiology :

- Lot of problems, cases with good solutions. current set is good but could be lot better - Recorded audio if used in a class.

I would love to contribute to this - but I am just a student.

PDF Version
Would it be possible for an updated PDF version of this Wikibook to be created? The current one is from 2007, and there have been many improvements and changes since then. Regards, HMman (discuss • contribs) 04:45, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

done --Dirk Hünniger (discuss • contribs) 15:30, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

Can we add a chapter on exercise physiology?
This is an amazing textbook and I wonder if we can add a chapter at the end on exercise physiology since some universities (like mine) include some topics like cardio-respiratory responses to exercise... A chapter like this will even make the textbook more 'complete' than what is already now —Preceding unsigned comment added by U1012738 (discuss • contribs)

Skeletal System
I don't see anything about the Skeletal System at all, which I would think would be a fundamental requirement for any book about human physiology. Am I missing something, or is perhaps this book not really completed? --71.51.24.253 (discuss) 20:51, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Natural science
What are the main processes of the nervous system Mobicel Astro (discuss • contribs) 15:48, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

Nerves Mobicel Astro (discuss • contribs) 15:49, 9 March 2020 (UTC)