An Introduction to Human Disease: Pathology and Pathophysiology Correlations, Eighth Edition provides students with a clear and well-illustrated explanation of the structural and functional changes associated with disease, the clinical manifestations of disease, and how to determine treatment. Ideal for Pathology, Pathophysiology, or Human Disease courses, the first part of the text deals with general concepts and with diseases affecting the body as a whole. The second part considers the various organ systems and their diseases. Health and disease may be considered twi extremes pf a continiuum. At one extreme is severe, life threatening, disabling illness with its corresponding major effect on the physical and emotional well being of the patient.