This is the updated and thoroughly revised edition of the popular textbook, fondly dedicated to the memory of Dr CC Chatterjee who had written the book in the Independence era of country in 1948. Dr Chatterjee was the faculty at Calcutta Medical College. This book was widely read throughout the country and South East Asia for over four decades and helped medical and paramedical students to have firm understanding of the functional aspects of human body. Dr Chatterjee passed away in 1984 but his book still remains in the minds of millions of readers who read it with passion. He wrote a complete integrated physiology textbook with anatomy and biochemistry encompassed altogether in the era when there were no computers or any advance technology for printing. The integrated approach of incorporating anatomy, physiology and biochemistry in this single textbook was marveled by all academicians and was one of the salient features of the book of all the eleven editions up to 1984.
Prof Nitin Ashok John, as editor of the book, took the challenge of editing the eleventh edition to the prescribed existing syllabus and twelfth edition was brought out in 2018. As Medical Council of India recommended the competency based curriculum, the thirteenth edition was designed to match the newly designed curriculum. As inputs flowed in from academicians across the country, these were taken into consideration and the fourteenth edition of the book was written as per the National Medical Commission, Competency Based Curriculum. The fifteenth edition features a host of modifications and innovations brought into sparkle it as a popular textbook for undergraduate students of medical sciences, dental sciences, Ayush courses, and other paramedical and allied health sciences courses.
Salient Features of Fifteenth Edition
★ Presents simplified and comprehensive text to make it easy to understand, and to give a clear conceptual understanding of the subject to the students.
★ Provides completely integrated physiology with clinical orientation, apart from horizontal integration.
★ Covers comprehensive applied and comparative physiology.
★ Includes clinical case scenarios and recent advances.
★ Incorporates a separate section on Multiple Choice Questions and Answers for viva voce and theory examinations.
★ Attempts to serve as a guide for university examinations and job interviews.
★ Designed for the candidates appearing in NEET PG, ExiT Examinations, USMLE and PLAB.
★ Carries updated examination-oriented questions.
★ Oriented towards quick understanding and recapitulation of basics.
★ Characterises historical features and scientific findings depicted appropriately in the text.
About the Author
Nitin Ashok John MD, DIH, FPGDMLE, PGDHA is currently Professor and Head, Department of Physiology, and Dean (Examination), All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bibinagar, Hyderabad. He is former Head, Department of Physiology, Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, UP, and Indira Gandhi Medical College, Puducherry. He completed his MBBS from Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Sewagram, Wardha, and MD from Indira Gandhi Government Medical, Puducherry. He is Fellow of Higher Education Academy, UK. In addition, he has received fellowship from Royal Society of Biology (FRSB), London, UK; fellowship from Royal Society of Public Health (FRSPH), London, UK; and fellowship of Academy of Medical Educators (FAcadMEd), Cardiff, UK. He has also completed his Postgraduate Diploma in Medical Law and Ethics from NLSU, Bangalore; DIH from Annamalai University; Postgraduate Diploma in Hospital Administration from Algappa University; and MA in Public Administration from Nagpur University. He has 29 years of standing experience in medical profession which includes 25 years of experience as faculty and four years as medical officer / honorary doctor. He has been the UG–PG assessor for Medical Council of India from 2011-2019 and is the UG–PG assessor for National Medical Commission, New Delhi, from 2019 onwards; President, Association of Physiologists of India, UP Chapter, 2019-2020; Finance Secretary, Association of Physiologists of India, 2014-2016; and member of various international and national scientific societies. He has conducted and supervised around 30 research projects, including 12 funded projects. He has to his credit more than 100 research papers published in national and international journals and has written 10 textbooks and practical books in physiology. He has delivered more than 50 guest lectures at national and international levels at various scientific meetings. He is a dedicated academician, excellent orator, well respected teacher and administrator, as well as an author of high eminence.
