Mader: Understanding Human Anatomy & Physiology, Fifth Edition Front Matter Preface © The McGraw−Hill

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves. Galileo Galilei Over the years, it has been my privilege to meet many of the adopters of my texts at various meetings around the coun-try. At one such meeting, I met a professor who told me that he and his colleagues were using my book, Human Biology for an anatomy and physiology course because they wanted to use a Mader text. When I returned home, I pondered over this and decided that I would write an anatomy and physi-ology text so that professors teaching that course would have a more appropriate Mader textbook. Thus, began the development of this text, Understanding Human Anatomy and Physiology, which is now in its fifth edition. I wanted to write a text that would appeal to a wide au-dience_from those in traditional allied health fields to oth