dehydration (physiology)

Learn why our blood needs water, how water helps us digest our food and remove waste from our bodies, how much water is needed to drink each day, getting water from the foods we eat, and how much of a person?s body is made up of water.

Text and color illustrations explorethe ways in which the human body uses water, and how things can go wrong if one isn't hydrated enough.

Contains more than twenty articles by ethical, legal, religious, health care, and public policy scholars on the forgoing of life-sustaining food and water, and studies the case of Claire C. Conroy.