The digestive system / Michael Windelspecht.

Westport, Conn. ; London : Greenwood Press, 2004.

xx, 191 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-182) and index.

Digestion at the cellular and molecular level -- The upper gastrointestinal tract: oral cavity, esophagus, and stomach -- The lower gastrointestinal tract: small intestine and colon -- The accessory organs -- History of the digestive system: ancients to the renaissance -- History of the digestive system: seventeenth to nineteenth centuries -- History of the digestive system: twentieth century to the present -- Diseases and ailments of the oral cavity and esophagus -- Diseases and ailments of the stomach -- diseases and ailments of the small and large intestine -- Diseases and ailments of the accessory glands -- Cancer of the digestive system.