Extreme medicine
Subtitle: how exploration transformed medicine in the twentieth century
By: Kevin Fong, M.D.
Publisher: The Penguin Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9781594204708
Subjects: Adventure travel; First aid in illness and injury; Space flight; Extreme environments; Health aspects
Work titles: Extremes
Description: 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.
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.
Table of contents: title: Ice; title: Fire; title: Heart; title: Trauma; title: Intensive care; title: Water; title: Orbit; title: Mars; title: Final frontiers.