Before We Are Born: Essentials of Embryology and Birth Defects

By Keith L. Moore, Mark G Torchia, T V N Persaud

Book Overview

Zero in on the most essential concepts in human embryology and development Concise and richly illustrated, the new edition of The Developing Human delivers the embryology knowledge you need in a highly efficient, reader-friendly format.Editor Keith L. Moore, BA, MSc, PhD, FIAC, FRSM is the recipient of the first (2007) "Henry Gray/Elsevier Distinguished Educator Award"-the American Association of Anatomists' highest award for excellence in human anatomy education at the medical/dental, graduate, and undergraduate level of teaching-a testament to his masterful teaching abilities, which help make this book such an effective tool for learning the complex subject of human embryology.
Succinct coverage focuses on the most need-to-know human embryology concepts.
Over 1,300 crisp illustrations and up-to-date clinical photos bring the material to life.
Review questions and answers at the end of each chapter test your knowledge and help you prepare for exams.Sweeping updates reflect all of the latest advances, including IVF, cloning, and genes in human development
Bonus online access to STUDENT CONSULT includes 18 remarkable, specially developed animations that bring embryological development to life, and hundreds of additional support questions and answers to test your mastery of the material
A new, more user-friendly, full-colour format helps you master key embryology concepts more easily than ever, and a smaller size makes the book more portable

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1416037055
• ISBN13: 9781416037057
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Saunders
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

Great book

I Like Dr Moore and his other book Clinically oriented anatomy Dr Moore books are clearly written and supported with figures. I am a neurologist in practice. And I like to mention the good thing about dr Moore , that: After he was told about Muslims Quran, and how it described embryology, he admitted that Quran can not be Made by a man, but it has to be revelation. he added to his second edition of this book the information he learned from Quran and the saying of Prophet Muhammad. This is really an honest scholar. Our knowledge need to be grounded by our connection to God. It's understandable how the west left the church "abuse" but they need not to leave God as we see in this example how true Revelation(Quran) and science dont contradict each other. You can check [...], on Quran miracles. I always wonder how can scientist refuse God.

Very nice if you hate Langman.

UAMS listed Langman's Medical Embryology as our required embryo book. I hate Langman with a passion, as you can tell in my review of it. It is poorly written, contains less than useful 2-D figures making it difficult to visualize morphologic changes, and contains at least two errors in every single chapter (and I'm not talking about minutia; it's errors big enough that our lecturers have to mention them in class). So, I began searching for an alternate embryology book that covered the material in about the same depth as Langman. This is it. This book is concisely and CLEARLY written. It also contains more figures, and these figures have a 3-D feel to them that make embryology much more understandable. Also, it appears to have vastly fewer errors. If your medical school requires Langman, by all means get Langman. Many of my classmates find the book an enjoyable read, and this book isn't a Langman clone, so the information each book contains is slightly different. The author (Moore) is also the author of Clinically Oriented Anatomy (5th Edition), and he correlates embryologic structure to adult anatomy more than Langman, which I enjoy. But if you have Langman, hate it, and need a supplement, this delivers in spades.

great book

I absolutely agree with Michelle Lee (one of the reviewers above) that it is essential to SEE what is happening when you study Embryology. This book does a great job in that sense and I highly recommend it.

As a medical student

In bried to say that the book is not only well written and presented it also makes the subject very easy to understand.Used it for my anatomy and pathophysiology lectures. A very good book indead for someone who has just started studying the subject.

The best way to learn embryology...

This book had the BEST pictures. In fact, just this year our veterinary school switched the required text from Langman's Medical Embryology (a very human-centered book) to Before We Are Born. I think the best way to learn about how the embryo develops is to actually see things happening...a professor can say "then the dermatomes extend out from the somites..." but it really doesn't mean much unless you can SEE it. Before We Are Born really does this well, taking a step-by-step approach to learning the processes of developmental biology. The illustrations are clear, and they try to make them as 3-D looking as possible. If you're taking a developmental biology or embryology course, you NEED this book!