Research Catalog

Title

Respiratory physiology : people and ideas / edited by John B. West.

Publication

New York : Published for the American Physiological Society by Oxford University Press, 1996.

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Additional Authors

• American Physiological Society (1887- ) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50060285
• West, John B. (John Burnard)

Description

x, 431 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Subjects

• Respiration > physiology
• Physiology > history
• Lung > physiology
• Respiratory organs > Physiology > History

Bibliography (note)

• 1ncludes bibliographies.

Contents

1. The Structural Basis of Lung Function / Ewald R. Weibel -- 2. Transfer of Gas by Diffusion and Chemical Reaction in Pulmonary Capillaries / Robert E. Forster II -- 3. Blood Gas Transport and Analysis / Poul Astrup and John W. Severinghaus -- 4. Lung Liquid and Solute Exchange / Norman C. Staub, Sr. -- 5. Pulmonary Blood Flow and Gas Exchange / John B. West -- 6. Mechanics of Lung and Chest Wall / Jere Mead -- 7. Lung Surface Tension and Surfactant: The Early Years / John A. Clements -- 8. Modern History of Respiratory Muscle Physiology / Peter T. Macklem -- 9. Rhythm Generation / Curt von Euler -- 10. The History of Chemoreception / Robert S. Fitzgerald and Sukhamay Lahiri -- 11. Airway and Pulmonary Afferents and Reflexes: A Historical Survey / John Widdicombe and Giuseppe Sant'Ambrogio -- 12. A Brief History of Comparative Respiratory Physiology: Some Ideas and Their Proponents / S. Marsh Tenney.

ISBN

0195080815

LCCN

95033371

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries