Title: Surviving the extremes : a doctor's journey to the limits of human endurance /
Authors: Kamler, Kenneth.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Wounds and Injuries; Survival; Environment; Adaptation, Physiological; Emergency Treatment; Extreme environments Physiological effect.
Abstract: A physician, NASA consultant, and expert on the extreme conditions that confront the human body journeys into six inhospitable environments to examine the reaction of the body to heat, cold, pressure, starvation, and exhaustion and its own innate survival strategies.