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The range of environments in which people can survive is extensive, yet most of the natural world cannot support human life. The Biology of Human Survival identifies the key determinants of life or death in extreme environments from a physiologist's perspective, integrating modern concepts of stress, tolerance, and adaptation into explanations of life under Nature's most austere conditions. The book examines how individuals survive when faced with extremes of immersion, heat, cold or altitude, emphasising the body's recognition of stress and the brain's role in optimising physiological function in order to provide time to escape or to adapt. In illustrating how human biology adapts to extremes, the book also explains how we learn to cope by blending behaviour and biology, first by trial and error, then by rigorous scientific observation, and finally by technological innovation. The book describes life-support technology and how it enables humans to enter once unendurable realms from the depths of the ocean to the upper reaches of the atmosphere and beyond. Finally, it explores the role that advanced technology might play in special environments of the future, such as long journeys into space.

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Kategoria Książki po angielsku Medicine Other branches of medicine Environmental medicine

• Pełny tytuł: Biology of Human Survival
• Autor: Claude A. (Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Environmental Physiology) Piantadosi
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Twarda
• Liczba stron: 280
• EAN: 9780195165012
• ISBN: 0195165012
• ID: 04476545
• Wydawca: Oxford University Press Inc
• Waga: 534 g
• Wymiary: 234 × 164 × 25 mm
• Data wydania: 30. October 2003

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