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Author Fong, Kevin, 1971-

Title Extreme medicine : how exploration transformed medicine in the twentieth century / Kevin Fong.

Publication Info. New York : The Penguin Press, 2014.

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 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  616.0252 FON    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  616.0252 FON    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  616.0252 FONG    Check Shelf
Description 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note "Published in Great Britain under the title Extremes: life, death and the limits of the human body by Hodder & Stoughton"--Title page verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-285) and index.
Contents Introduction -- Ice -- Fire -- Heart -- Trauma -- Intensive care -- Water -- Orbit -- Mars -- Final frontiers.
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.
Subject First aid in illness and injury.
Extreme environments -- Health aspects.
Adventure travel -- Health aspects.
Space flight -- Health aspects.
Added Title Extremes
ISBN 9781594204708 hardback
9780143126294 17.00
0143126296 17.00
1594204705 hardback
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