Extreme medicine : how exploration transformed medicine in the twentieth century / Kevin Fong, M.D.
By: Fong, Kevin.
c2014Description: 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.ISBN: 1594204705 (hardcover); 9781594204708 (hardcover).Uniform titles: Extremes Subject(s): Adventure travel -- Health aspects | Extreme environments -- Health aspects | First aid in illness and injury | Space flight -- Health aspectsGenre/Form: Print books.DDC classification: 616.02/52| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| On Shelf | RC86.7 .F66 2014 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000001375 |
"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.
Introduction -- Ice -- Fire -- Heart -- Trauma -- Intensive care -- Water -- Orbit -- Mars -- Final frontiers.