Extreme medicine : how exploration transformed medicine in the twentieth century / Kevin Fong, M.D.
Extreme medicine : how exploration transformed medicine in the twentieth century / Kevin Fong, M.D.
Extreme medicine : how exploration transformed medicine in the twentieth century / Kevin Fong, M.D.
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Author / Creator
Publisher
New York, New York : The Penguin Press, 2014.
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G 2014/3329
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Language
English
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Physical content
294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Ice -- Fire -- Heart -- Trauma -- Intensive care -- Water -- Orbit -- Mars -- Final frontiers.
Publication information
Publisher
New York, New York : The Penguin Press, 2014.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2014.
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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.
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Extreme medicine : how exploration transformed medicine in the twentieth century / Kevin Fong, M.D.
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"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.
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©2012.
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G 2014/3329
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74VKvjZ46XRZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKvjZ46XRZ
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ISBN
1594204705 (hbk.)
9781594204708 (hbk.) :
DDC
616.0252
MMS ID
991021653909702626
