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Extreme medicine: [how exploration transformed medicine in the twentieth century]

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Fong, Kevin.
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2014
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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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Adventure travel
Adventure travel -- Health aspects
Extreme environments
Extreme environments -- Health aspects
First aid in illness and injury
Health aspects
Medical / History
SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology
Space flight
Space flight -- Health aspects
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9781594204708
9781452698144
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