Human physiology: what it is and how it is done (2024)

Human Physiology: A Very Short Introduction

Jamie A. Davies

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2021

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9780191912702

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9780198869887

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Human Physiology: A Very Short Introduction

Jamie A. Davies

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Davies, Jamie A., 'Human physiology: what it is and how it is done', Human Physiology: A Very Short Introduction, Very Short Introductions (Oxford, 2021; online edn, Oxford Academic, 27 May 2021), https://doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780198869887.003.0001, accessed 10 June 2024.

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Abstract

This chapter defines human physiology and how it is studied. Human physiology is the science of how the body works. As well as telling us how our bodies work, physiological knowledge is important to keeping them working in the event of injury or disease. As in all of the biological sciences, research in human physiology uses observation, inference, imaginative proposing of hypotheses, and the testing of these hypotheses by experiment. Many experiments on human physiology are done directly on human volunteers: data obtained directly from humans are obviously of the highest relevance to human biology. The chapter then looks at imaging technologies and the nature of explanations in human physiology.

Keywords: human body, physiological knowledge, human physiology, human biology, imaging technologies

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Biological Sciences Physiology

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Very Short Introductions

Collection: Very Short Introductions

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