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Can anyone recommend a good place to learn introductory human anatomy? I'm looking for a highish level overview of what organs make up different systems, how the different systems relate to each other? I know that I can hit wikipedia, but am looking for a packaged deal that will do a good enough job.
EDIT: Thanks for all the suggestions. I decided to pick up used, older editions of The Human Body Book for a good overview and Textbook of Medical Physiology for anywhere I want to delve into more detail.
If you like visuals, Crash Course has an entertaining and informative Biology playlist which includes a subset on human biology. I would imagine any undergrad (or possibly even high school) introductory text would also revise major organ systems to the level you describe.
Do you have any specific purpose or goal in mind?
I have two primary motivations. First, I'd like to have a better context for understanding new medical treatments that I hear about. Second, I'd like to know enough about basic human biology that my first response when someone tells me about a medical problem they're having is sympathy rather than a desire to learn what that part of the body does (my curiosity is usually followed by frustration when the person who is complaining of some organ failing doesn't even know what the organ is supposed to do when healthy and frustration is a particularly bad response). So, I guess my interest is more about understanding how anatomy relates to health.
The link you provided looks good for learning basic biology, but I got most of that stuff in my basic biology class in college. I will check out the ones that look oriented towards human biology though. I was hoping for something shorter than a text book, although a good text book recommendation wouldn't go amiss either.
A quick Google threw this up, though I can't attest to the merits of any of them. I'm tempted by the last one myself.
(I am currently very slowly working my way through an undergrad human biology syllabus comprising four fairly weighty institution-specific textbooks. It's quite possible I'll never finish them.)
Gray's anatomy.
If you want to learn how the organ systems work, that's physiology. I liked Boron in med school, if you want a basic understanding just read the subtitles and figures.
The basic stuff doesn't change drastically with time, and you can get older versions of the books cheaply.
Not exactly an overview but apparently good for learning location and name: Speed Anatomy App https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.speedAnatomy.speedAnatomyLite&hl=en
Thanks. I'm actually already using that to learn the location and names. It's pretty useless for function, but when someone tells me what the duodenum is for I'll know where it is.
The part of biology that studies function is called physiology. Anatomy is the part about the structure.
DK Publishing has lots of books on this subject, all with the classic DK gorgeous visuals. They're geared to a public (not student / academic) audience, which may or may not be what you're looking for. The one I have is The Human Body Book. It also has sections on pathologies for each part of the body.