The Biology of Human Survival (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
280
Utgivningsdatum
2003-10-01
Upplaga
illustrated ed
Förlag
OUP Oxford
Illustratör/Fotograf
figures and halftones numerous tables
Illustrationer
tabs.figs. b&w photos
Dimensioner
245 x 165 x 23 mm
Vikt
680 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
52:B&W 6.14 x 9.21in or 234 x 156mm (Royal 8vo) Case Laminate on White w/Gloss Lam
ISBN
9780195165012

The Biology of Human Survival

Life and Death in Extreme Environments

av Claude A Piantadosi
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2003-10-01
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This fascinating book explains how humans can live in extreme environments from a physiologist's perspective, using modern concepts of stress, tolerance and adaptation. The book examines how individuals cope with life under extremes of immersion, heat, cold and altitude, emphasizing the body's recognition of stress and the brain's role in the responses needed to escape or to adapt. It also explores how humanity deals with problems of adaptation, first by trial and error, then by scientific experimentation, and finally through technological innovation.
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Polar Record 40/214 This is an engaging and accessible work of intellectual synthesis that allows the reader to appreciate how the big and the small fit into the integrated system that is the human organism. The book rests on a foundation of broad and solid scholarship, and is of considerable practical utility . . . It could serve well as a textbook in a variety of courses at either undergraduate or graduate level. As a practicing physiologist, I enjoyed the broad view it provided of my discipline . . . some may just read it for the pleasure of learning the marvelous ways the human organism adapts to its environment.

Physiology News, Number 55, Summer 2004 Piantadosi's book is a superb primer in the field and deserves a very wide readership.

Innehållsförteckning

1. The Human Environment; 2. Survival and Adaptation; 3. Cross-Acclimation; 4. Food for Thought; 5. Water and Salt; 6. Water That Makes Men Mad; 7. Tolerance to Heat; 8. Endless Oceans of Sand; 9. Hypothermia; 10. Life on the Crystal Desert; 11. Survival in Cold Water; 12. Air as Good as We Deserve; 13. Bends and Rapture of the Deep; 14. Sunken Submarines; 15. Climbing Higher; 16. Into the Wild Blue Yonder; 17. G Whiz; 18. The Gravity of Microgravity; 19. Weapons of Mass Destruction; 20. Human Prospects for Colonising Space

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