Extreme medicine

By Kevin Fong

Subjects: Space flight, Expeditions, Discoveries in geography, Physical Endurance, Aerospace Medicine, History of Medicine, Emergencies, Adventure travel, Medical innovations, 44.01 history of medicine, Environment, Emergency medicine, Space medicine, Environmental Exposure, History, 20th Century, Extreme environments, Emergency Treatment, First aid in illness and injury, Health aspects, History, Physiological Phenomena, Medicine, Space Flight

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.