Extreme medicine : how exploration transformed medicine in the twentieth century /
Fong, Kevin,1971-author.
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.
Originally published in Great Britain as: Extremes : life, death and the limits of the human body. London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2013.
Includes bibliographical references  (pages 261-285) and index.
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.
First aid in illness and injury.
Extreme environments
Adventure travel
Space flight