A look at one of the world's most complex machines, capable of laughing, crying, and even reproducing itself.

Children join fun characters in naming body parts and saying words for family members. They also learn to communicate their needs and express feelings such as tired and hungry. Includes over 70 words and phrases. An on-screen mouth shows how to form sounds and encourages imitation and proper articulation.

Students explore two key body systems: the respiratory and circulatory systems. The importance of maintaining the health of the respiratory and circulatory systems through exercise and diet is also discussed.

You live with it 24 hours a day, but how well do you really know it? This course is an owner's manual to a remarkably complex, resilient, and fascinating structure: the human body. Using detailed color illustrations, life-sized models, and, even a video shot during surgery, this course examines the major systems of the body, explaining exactly how things work and why they sometimes don't. Each lecture concentrates on a particular organ or organ system,...

Follow the spectacular feats performed by world-class athletes including a rock climber, an Olympic skier, and a prima ballerina from a unique perspective.

Explores the human body through individual case studies, highlighting cutting-edge medical technology and life-and-death personal dramas.

With stunning footage and cutting-edge technology, National Geographic explores the human body from the inside out as never before. Four classic programs look at how the incredible human machine works, from the miraculous in-utero development of a fetus to the mechanics of a beating heart, and from the formation of skin to the amazing way complicated systems work together for sensing, adapting, reproducing, regenerating, and thinking.

Microscopic filmmaking, advanced medical technology, and state-of-the-art cardiac tomography imaging techniques are used to reveal unique perspectives on how our bodies function, grow, and mature from infancy through puberty, adulthood, and old age.

The body is a fortress under constant assault. It faces threats from infectious diseases, parasites, allergens, environmental toxins, physical trauma, and natural disasters from without, to overzealous allergic, immune, and inflammatory responses, and cellular mutations from within. This course is an introduction to the field of pathophysiology--the study of the disruptions in a normal body's functions caused by disease or injury. Beginning with an...

Uses microphotography to observe the inner workings of athletes in action. Demonstrates muscle coordination, how the body turns food into energy, and how new life develops.