The Human Body: How We Fail, How We Heal [repost]

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Your body is a fortress under constant assault. Infectious diseases, parasites, environmental toxins, physical trauma, allergens, and natural disasters are some external enemies it faces. From the inside, it is threatened by occasional overzealous allergic, immune, and inflammatory responses, as well as by the cellular mutations that produce cancer.

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Fortunately, the body's defenses are remarkably successful, and most of the time we are unaware of the intense drama taking place within our cells and organs.

The intriguing details of this drama make up the field of pathophysiology-the study of the disruptions in a normal body's functions that are caused by disease or injury. Medical students get an exhaustive introduction to this subject early in their training, and the best clinicians are masters of it. Yet few laypeople understand the story of how our bodies fail and the marvelous ways they heal themselves.

Professor Saccio is a trained actor. He performed the Shakespearean roles of Casca, Angelo, Bassanio, and Henry IV, and directed productions of Twelfth Night, Macbeth, and Cymbeline.
More info: http://www.teach12.com/ttcx/coursedesclong2.aspx?cid=1564

Includes:
01. How We Fail
02. Cell Biology - Introduction and Definitions
03. Inflammation - Basic Principles
04. The Inflammatory Response
05. Inflammation - Clinical Manifestations
06. The Immune Response
07. The Immune Response Continued
08. Hypersensitivity and the Allergic Response
09. Infectious Diseases - General Introduction
10. Bacteria
11. Viruses
12. Spirochetes, Rickettsiae, Chlamydiae, Prions
13. Malaria
14. Schistosomiasis, Filariasis, Tapeworms
15. Infectious Diseases - Treatment
16. Infectious Diseases - Triumph and Failure
17. Shock - Principles and Hypovolemic Shock
18. Categories of Shock
19. Cancer - The Enemy Within
20. Environmental Carcinogens
21. Mechanisms of Carcinogenesis
22. Invasion, Metastasis, and Angiogenesis
23. Treatment - Surgery, Radiation, Chemotherapy
24. How We Heal