Basic Medical Microbiology is a concise summary of the most important pathogens and the diseases they cause, presented with a focus on what the students needs to know and not what would be nice to know. I believe the uniqueness of this book is that it is written by a clinical microbiologist with more than 45 years of successfully practicing in this field and educating medical and graduate students. MORE

The book is intended for students in the health care professions, who have not previously taken a course on human physiology. It is best suited for graduate students (e.g., medicine, dentistry, nursing, etc.), but it can easily meet the needs of upper-level undergraduate students. MORE

The advances in assisted reproduction section fortifies the role of scientific advances in fertility care that includes sperm mapping in cases of male sterility to help more men become biodads and the use of microfluidics in the arena of advanced sperm sorting technologies to reintroduce the natural selection process into the in vitro fertilization laboratory. MORE

As I updated the text from the second edition, it was invigorating to see how much the field of endocrinology has advanced over the past decade and a half. MORE