Title: Extreme medicine
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.
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