Kevin Fong Extreme Medicine (Poche)

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Titre: Extreme Medicine
Condition: Neuf
Sous titres: How Exploration Transformed Medicine in the Twentieth Century
Auteur: Kevin Fong
Format: Poche
ISBN-10: 0143126296
EAN: 9780143126294
ISBN: 9780143126294
Publisher: Penguin USA
Genre: History
Sujet: Medicine, Science Nature & Math
Date de publication: 2015-03-31
Année de publication: 2015
Description: Little more than one hundred years ago, maps of the world still boasted white space: places where no human had ever trod. Within a few short decades the most hostile of the world’s environments had all been conquered. Likewise, in the twentieth century, medicine transformed human life. Doctors took what was routinely fatal and made it survivable. As modernity brought us ever more into different kinds of extremis, doctors pushed the bounds of medical advances and human endurance. Extreme exploration challenged the body in ways that only the vanguard of science could answer. Doctors, scientists, and explorers all share a defining trait: they push on in the face of grim odds. Because of their extreme exploration we not only understand our physiology better; we have also made enormous strides in the science of healing.


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.


Sujet: Anglais
Pays/Région de fabrication: US
Item Height: 203
Item Length: 134.00
Item Width: 20.00
Poids: 261g
: 31/03/2015

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  • Condition: Neuf
  • Title: Extreme Medicine
  • Titre: Extreme Medicine
  • Sous titres: How Exploration Transformed Medicine in the Twentieth Century
  • Auteur: Kevin Fong
  • Format: Poche
  • ISBN-10: 0143126296
  • EAN: 9780143126294
  • ISBN: 9780143126294
  • Publisher: Penguin USA
  • Genre: History
  • Sujet: Anglais
  • Date de publication: 2015-03-31
  • Année de publication: 2015
  • Pays/Région de fabrication: US
  • Item Height: 203
  • Item Length: 134.00
  • Item Width: 20.00
  • Poids: 261g

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