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An edition of Extreme medicine (2014)

Extreme medicine

how exploration transformed medicine in the twentieth century

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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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The Penguin Press
Language
English
Pages
294

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Subjects
Adventure travel, First aid in illness and injury, Space flight, Extreme environments, Health aspects, Medical innovations, History, Space medicine, Discoveries in geography, Emergency medicine, History, 20th Century, History of Medicine, Aerospace Medicine, Emergencies, Environment, Physical Endurance, Physiological Phenomena, 44.01 history of medicine, Medicine, Emergency Treatment, Environmental Exposure, Expeditions, Space Flight

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Extreme medicine: how exploration transformed medicine in the twentieth century
2014, The Penguin Press
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Table of Contents

Ice
Fire
Heart
Trauma
Intensive care
Water
Orbit
Mars
Final frontiers.

Edition Notes

"Published in Great Britain under the title 'Extremes: life, death and the limits of the human body' by Hodder & Stoughton"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-285) and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
616.02/52
Library of Congress
RC86.7 .F66 2014, RA418.5.M4 F66 2014

The Physical Object

Pagination
294 pages
Number of pages
294

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26921483M
Internet Archive
extrememedicineh0000fong
ISBN 10
1594204705
ISBN 13
9781594204708
LCCN
2013028124
OCLC/WorldCat
852222087

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