Title:
Extreme medicine : how exploration transformed medicine in the twentieth century / Kevin Fong, M.D.
Author:
Fong, Kevin, 1971-
Publication Information:
New York, New York : The Penguin Press, 2014.
©2012
Call Number:
RC86.7 .F66 2014
Abstract:
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.
ISBN:
9781594204708
Physical Description:
294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
General Note:
"Published in Great Britain under the title 'Extremes: life, death and the limits of the human body' by Hodder & Stoughton"--Title page verso.
Contents:
Ice -- Fire -- Heart -- Trauma -- Intensive care -- Water -- Orbit -- Mars -- Final frontiers.
Uniform Title:
Extremes
Personal Author:
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