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Extreme medicine [sound recording] : how exploration transformed medicine in the twentieth century / Kevin Fong. by Fong, Kevin, 1971- Tantor Media, p2014. Call #: COMPACT DISC 616.0252 F674e Subjects Extreme environments -- Physiological effect.   Extreme environments -- Health aspects.   First aid in illness and injury.   Human physiology.   Human body.   Discoveries in science.   Discoveries in geography -- Health aspects.   Adventure travel -- Health aspects.   Space flight -- Health aspects.   Medicine -- Research.   Medical innovations.   Stress (Physiology) ISBN:  9781452618142 Format:  [sound recording] : Edition:  Unabridged. Description:  6 compact discs (7:30 hrs.) : digital ; 12 cm. Notes:  "Published in Great Britain under the title Extremes: life, death and the limits of the human body by Hodder & Stoughton". Performers:  Read by Jonathan Cowley. Summary:  "Drawing on his own experience as an anesthesiologist, intensive care expert, and NASA adviser, Dr. Kevin Fong examines how cuttingedge medicine pushes the envelope of human survival by studying the human body's response when tested by physical extremes. Extreme Medicine explores different limits of endurance and the lens each offers on one of the systems of the body. The challenges of Arctic exploration created opportunities for breakthroughs in open heart surgery; battlefield doctors pioneered techniques for skin grafts, heart surgery, and trauma care; underwater and outer space exploration have revolutionized our understanding of breathing, gravity, and much more. Avant-garde medicine is fundamentally changing our ideas about the nature of life and death. Through astonishing accounts of extraordinary events and pioneering medicine, Fong illustrates the sheer audacity of medical practice at extreme limits, where human life is balanced on a knife's edge. Extreme Medicine is a gripping debut about the science of healing, but also about exploration in its broadest sense--and about how, by probing the very limits of our biology, we may ultimately return with a better appreciation of how our bodies work, of what life is, and what it means to be human."--Publisher. Genre:  Adult books on CD. Other authors:  Cowley, Jonathan. Tantor Media. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Home Delivery - HN Adult Nonfiction on CD COMPACT DISC 616.0252 F674e Adult Compact Discs Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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