Extreme medicine : how exploration transformed medicine in the twentieth century / Kevin Fong, M.D.

  • Fong, Kevin, 1971-
Date:
2014
  • Books

About this work

Also known as

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.

Publication/Creation

New York, NY : The Penguin Press, 2014.

Physical description

294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Contributors

Notes

"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.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-285) and index.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    DE /FON
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 1594204705
  • 9781594204708