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The Biology of Human Survival - Life and Death in Extreme Environments (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R1,884
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The Biology of Human Survival - Life and Death in Extreme Environments (Hardcover, New): Claude A. Piantadosi

The Biology of Human Survival - Life and Death in Extreme Environments (Hardcover, New)

Claude A. Piantadosi

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Loot Price R1,884 Discovery Miles 18 840 | Repayment Terms: R177 pm x 12*

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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, emphasizing the body's recognition of stress and the brain's role in optimizing 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 behavior and biology, first by trial and error, then by rigorous scientific obsrvation, and finally by technological innovation. The book describes life-supprt 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 enviornments of the future, now in long journeys into space.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Release date: October 2003
First published: September 2003
Authors: Claude A. Piantadosi
Dimensions: 241 x 164 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 280
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-516501-2
Categories: Books > Medicine > Pre-clinical medicine: basic sciences > Physiology > General
Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Environmental medicine > Diving & hyperbaric medicine
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LSN: 0-19-516501-2
Barcode: 9780195165012

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