Summary
The skeletal and muscular systems not only allow us to move and stand tall, but they are also involved in protecting the body, allowing it to grow, and performing subconscious activities such as breathing and the beating of the heart. The heart, an organ made of muscle, distributes blood that lets other systems of the body function. These complex systems work together to achieve many essential bodily functions. In The Skeletal and Muscular Systems, Third Edition, learn how these two systems interact to keep the human body alive and in motion. Packed with full-color photographs and illustrations, this absorbing book provides students with sufficient background information through references, websites, and a bibliography.
About the Author(s)
Diana Gitig, Ph.D. has been a freelance science writer for twenty years, and has written for PLoS, Ars Technica, and the New York Academy of Sciences. She likes to cover molecular biology, immunology, neuroscience, and nutrition. She is based in New York.
Gregory J. Stewart completed his Ph.D. in microbiology at the University of California at Davis. His postdoctoral training was conducted at Exxon Research and Engineering, and E.I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company. He spent seven years at the University of South Florida as an assistant and associate professor of biology. In 1993 he joined the biology department of the University of West Georgia where he served as department chair. After one year as assistant dean of arts he then accepted a senior fellowship with the Bureau of Arms Control at the United States Department of State. His duties included coordination of the Biological and Toxins Weapons Convention (Treaty) and as advisor to all bureaus and other federal agencies on issues related to microbiology, biological weapons reduction, bioterrorism/counter-terrorism threat reduction and response, and non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Today he is the senior biosafety officer in the high containment core at Georgia State University.