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Linda S. Costanzo
Linda S. Costanzo, Ph.D., is a Professor of Physiology and Biophysics at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, and has published several textbooks of physiology, including Physiology, 6th Edition (Elsevier, 2018), BRS Physiology, 7th edition in press (Wolters Kluwer, 2018), and Physiology Cases and Problems, 4th edition (Wolters Kluwer, 2012).