Extreme Medicine : : how Exploration Transformed Medicine in the Twentieth Century
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"Published in Great Britain under the title Extremes: life, death and the limits of the human body by Hodder & Stoughton"--Title page verso.
Introduction -- Ice -- Fire -- Heart -- Trauma -- Intensive care -- Water -- Orbit -- Mars -- Final frontiers.
An anesthesiologist and NASA adviser explores how pioneering doctors and scientists have built on findings about the body's response to extreme environments and physical challenges to develop such medical innovations as open-heart surgery, skin grafts, and trauma care.
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PUBLISHED
New York : The Penguin Press, 2014.
Year Published: 2014
Description: 294 p. : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781594204708
1594204705
SUBJECTS
First aid in illness and injury.
Extreme environments -- Health aspects.
Adventure travel -- Health aspects.
Space flight -- Health aspects.