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Now in its Fourth Edition with a new editorial team, this comprehensive text addresses all medical and public health issues involved in the care of crews, passengers, and support personnel of aircraft and space vehicles. Coverage includes human physiology under flight conditions, clinical medicine in the aerospace environment, and the impact of the aviation industry on global public health. This edition features new chapters on radiation, toxicology and microbiology, dental considerations in aerospace medicine, women's health issues, commercial human space flight, space exploration, and unique aircraft including parachuting. Other highlights include significant new information on respiratory diseases, cardiovascular medicine, infectious disease transmission, and human response to acceleration.
| ISBN | 0781774667 | | Pages | 754 | | ISBN13 | 9780781774666
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Lippincott Williams and Wilkins | | Weight (grammes) | 1747 | | Imprint | Lippincott Williams and Wilkins | | Published in | Philadelphia | | Format | Hardback | | Previous ISBN | 9780781728980 | | Publication date | 01 Apr 2008 | | Height (mm) | 280 | | Library of Congress | 2008003374 | | Width (mm) | 216 | | DEWEY | 616.98021 | | Spine width (mm) | 34 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Professional / Scholarly |
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| | | History | | | | Ch. 1 | | The Beginnings: Past and Present by J. Robert Dille and Stanley R. Mohler | | 1 | | | | Physiology and Environment | | | | Ch. 2 | | Respiratory Physiology and Protection Against Hypoxia by Jeb S. Pickard and David P. Gradwell | | 20 | | Ch. 3 | | Physiology of Decompressive Stress by Jan Stepanek and James T. Webb | | 46 | | Ch. 4 | | Human Response to Acceleration by Robert D. Banks and James W. Brinkley and Richard Allnutt and Richard M. Harding | | 83 | | Ch. 5 | | Vibration and Acoustics by Suzanne D. Smith and Jerry R. Goodman and Ferdinand W. Grosveld | | 110 | | Ch. 6 | | Spatial Orientation in Flight by A. J. Parmet and W. R. Ercoline | | 142 | | Ch. 7 | | Thermal Stress by Robert W. Kenefick and Samuel N. Cheuvront and John W. Castellani and Catherine O'Brien | | 206 | | Ch. 8 | | Cosmic Radiation by Michael Bagshaw and Francis A. Cucinotta | | 221 | | Ch. 9 | | Aerospace Toxicology and Microbiology by John T. James and A. J. Parmet and Duane L. Pierson | | 236 | | Ch. 10 | | Space Environments by James Perry Locke | | 251 | | | | Clinical | | | | Ch. 11 | | Pilot Health and Aeromedical Certification by Robert R. Orford and Warren S. Silberman | | 279 | | Ch. 12 | | Respiratory Diseases: Aeromedical Implications by Jeb S. Pickard and Gary W. Gray | | 306 | | Ch. 13 | | Clinical Aerospace Cardiovascular Medicine by James R. Strader, Jr. and Gary W. Gray and William B. Kruyer | | 318 | | Ch. 14 | | Ophthalmology in Aerospace Medicine by Thomas J. Tredici and Douglas J. Ivan | | 349 | | Ch. 15 | | Otolaryngology in Aerospace Medicine by James R. Phelan | | 380 | | Ch. 16 | | Aerospace Neurology by John D. Hastings | | 392 | | Ch. 17 | | Aerospace Psychiatry by David R. Jones | | 406 | | | More... | | |
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