Displaying 1 of 1 2014 Format: Book Author: Fong, Kevin, 1971- Title: Extreme medicine : how exploration transformed medicine in the twentieth century / Kevin Fong. Publisher, Date: New York : The Penguin Press, 2014. Description: 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Summary: 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: First aid in illness and injury. Extreme environments -- Health aspects. Adventure travel -- Health aspects. Space flight -- Health aspects. Other Title: Extremes 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. Contents: Introduction -- Ice -- Fire -- Heart -- Trauma -- Intensive care -- Water -- Orbit -- Mars -- Final frontiers. LCCN: 2013028124 ISBN: 9781594204708 1594204705 Other Number: 852222087 System Availability: 2 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 2 Control Number: 397850 # Local items in: 2 # System items in: 2 Call Number: 616.0252 Fong Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
