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The biology of human survival : life and death in extreme environments

Title
The biology of human survival : life and death in extreme environments / Claude A. Piantadosi.
Author
Piantadosi, Claude A.
Publication
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

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Description
xiv, 263 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
"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. In illustrating how human biology adapts to extremes, the book also explains how we learn to cope by blending behavior 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."--Jacket.
Subject
  • Extreme environments
  • Adaptation (Biology)
  • Human physiology
  • Adaptation (Physiology)
  • Adaptation, Physiological
  • Survival > physiology
  • Environment
  • Adaptation, Biological
  • Extreme environments
  • Human physiology
  • Anpassung
  • Extrembedingung
  • Mensch
  • Umwelt
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-254) and index.
Contents
1. The Human Environment 1 -- 2. Survival and Adaptation 10 -- 3. Cross-Acclimation 21 -- 4. Food for Thought 29 -- 5. Water and Salt 41 -- 6. Water That Makes Men Mad 54 -- 7. Tolerance to Heat 63 -- 8. Endless Oceans of Sand 78 -- 9. Hypothermia 89 -- 10. Life and Death on the Crystal Desert 99 -- 11. Survival in Cold Water 119 -- 12. Air as Good as We Deserve 129 -- 13. Bends and Rapture of the Deep 140 -- 14. Sunken Submarines 152 -- 15. Climbing Higher 164 -- 16. Into the Wild Blue Yonder 181 -- 17. G Whiz 193 -- 18. The Gravity of Microgravity 203 -- 19. Weapons of Mass Destruction 212 -- 20. Human Prospects for Colonizing Space 227.
ISBN
  • 0195165012
  • 9780195165012
LCCN
2003040497
OCLC
  • ocm51454527
  • 51454527
  • SCSB-9451408
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library