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Extreme Medicine: How Exploration Transformed Medicine In The Twentieth Century (2014)

by Kevin Fong(Favorite Author)

3.85 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1594204705 (ISBN13: 9781594204708)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Penguin Press HC, The

review 1: This fairly short book covers a lot of medical ground demonstrating just how far medicine has come in the 20th century and can be expected to advance. Connecting exploration from polar regions of the earth to spaceflight including what challenges for human travel to Mars, this book covers major barriers such as severe burns, intensive care, and aging. Included are medical advances which originated in the World Wars' traumatic injuries. A lot of medical advantages that were unheard of 100 years ago, we almost take for granted these days. This book explains the challenges involved with a great infusion of wonder. This is one of the most uplifting books I've read in a long time.
review 2: I have a chronic case of what a friend calls "Fresh Air syndrome." The a... moreuthors Terry Gross interviews almost always sound so fascinating and personable that I want to read their books no matter the subject. This book, about what we have learned about medicine by taking the body up to and even past the limits of human physiology. Fong is an excellent writer, among his many other accomplishments, and I enjoyed the book, but the radio interview better conveyed the urgency of the incident he recounted, the one about having to escape a helicopter submerged under water. The most interesting part of the book for me was the chapter about skin transplants and how involved they are. Recommended for those who enjoy the subject. less

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