AN AUTHOR'S PHILOSOPHY OF PHYSIOLOGY TEXTBOOK WRITING
Arthur C. Guyton
Department of Physiology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, 2500 North State Street, Jackson, Mississippi 39216.
APStracts 5:0007S, 1998.
ABSTRACT
Last week I received a letter from Drs. Hansen and Roberts asking that I write an article tracing "the factors that have determined my approach to physiology education as it is realized in my textbooks." And they also stated that "my article could be of any length, as brief or as long as I want."
I immediately thought of a facetious answer to Drs. Hansen and Roberts: I would write the briefest possible article, containing a single sentence. This sentence would be: "Because I needed the money for writing the books."
And, true enough, I did need money because my wife and I were well on the way to producing multiple children, and I still did not know how I would be able to pay for their education, nor even to pay their day-to-day support. But the truth of the matter was that I did not even think of money when I started writing my Textbook of Medical Physiology.
Received 19 March 1998; accepted in final form 19 March 1998.
APS Manuscript Number S13-8.
Article publication pending Advances in Physiology Education.
ISSN 1080-4757 Copyright 1998 The American Physiological Society.
Published in APStracts on 24 April 1998