📚 Physiology

Books with physiology on their catalogue record, first published between 1937 and 2019, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject physiology in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 73,542 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Principles of Anatomy and Physiology	Gerard J. Tortora	1975	218
	Biology	Cecie Starr	1991	59
	Contemporary Nutrition	Gordon M. Wardlaw	1992	58
	Fundamentals of Anatomy & Physiology	Frederic Martini	1989	55
	Advances in microbial physiology	Robert K. Poole	1996	54
	Understanding Nutrition	Eleanor Noss Whitney	1977	52
	Anatomy and Physiology	Gail Jenkins	2008	45
	Musicophilia	Oliver Sacks	2007	43
	Human Anatomy & Physiology	Elaine Nicpon Marieb	1981	40
	Human anatomy & physiology	Elaine Nicpon Marieb	2010	37
	Principles of Human Physiology	Cindy L. Stanfield	2001	35
	Human Physiology	Lauralee Sherwood	1989	32
	Being Mortal	Atul Gawande	2014	31
	Nutrition	Frances Sizer Webb	1994	30
	Human physiology	Stuart Ira Fox	1984	29
	Exercise physiology	Scott K. Powers	1990	29
	Human Biology	Sylvia S. Mader	1988	28
	Human Physiology	Dee Unglaub Silverthorn	2006	28
	The Body	Bill Bryson	2019	28
	The Human Body	Isaac Asimov	1963	24
	Anatomy & physiology	Rod R. Seeley	1989	21
	Anatomy & Physiology	Donna Rae Siegfried	2002	21
	Biopsychology	John P.J. Pinel	2003	20
	Visual anatomy & physiology	Frederic H. Martini	2010	19
	The physiological basis of medical practice	Charles Herbert Best	1937	18
	Physiology of behavior	Neil R. Carlson	1977	18
	Animal physiology	Knut Schmidt-Nielsen	1960	16
	Physiology of sport and exercise	Jack H. Wilmore	1994	16
	Fundamentals of Anatomy and Physiology	Frederic H. Martini	2011	16
	Textbook of medical physiology	Arthur C. Guyton	1956	15

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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