Additional reading
Further information on human blood is found in the
following texts: Vernon B. Mountcastle (ed.), Medical
Physiology, 14th ed., 2 vol. (1980); Emil L. Smith et
al., Principles of Biochemistry, 7th ed., 2 vol. (1983);
Marcel Bessis, Corpuscles: Atlas of Red Blood Cell Shapes,
trans. from French (1974); William J. Williams et al.
(eds.), Hematology, 3rd ed. (1983); Maxwell M. Wintrobe
et al., Clinical Hematology, 8th ed. (1981); D.E. MacIntyre
and J.L. Gordon (eds.), Platelets in Biology and Pathology
III (1987); and James H. Jandl, Blood: Textbook of Hematology
(1987). Functions and structure of the heart and circulation
are explored in Arthur C. Guyton, Textbook of Medical
Physiology, 7th ed. (1986); Arthur C. Guyton, Carl E.
Jones, and Thomas G. Coleman, Circulatory Physiology:
Cardiac Output and Its Regulation, 2nd ed. (1973); Samuel
I. Rapaport, Introduction to Hematology, 2nd ed. (1987);
and Bernard M. Babior and Thomas P. Stossel, Hematology:
A Pathophysiological Approach (1984).C. Lockard Conley
Robert S. Schwartz
Jane F. Desforges
