Download or read book Man Medicine and Space written by Michael Martin-Smith and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Man, Medicine and Space is a wide-ranging philosophical and historical exploration of human activity in Space written for the interested general reader. It is not an encyclopedia, nor a textbook, but seeks to answer in plain language the question "What on Earth is Humanity doing in Space and why is it doing it?" As we enter a new Millennium many writers and thinkers are asking if Humanity's curiosity, science, and technology are really benign forces or if they serve the long-term interests of our species. This book gives , perhaps uniquely, resoundingly positive answers and suggests further that we may have after all discovered through science the true role of Humanity in a evolving Universe. In a time of uncertainty and rising superstition this book proposes a Destiny for Mankind which, unlike previous such programs, can be built by vision, hard work and discipline, and which threatens no others - human or animal. In summary, it offers a positive future for the long term, which can realize the unlocked creative potential for of our species. It is a supreme Humanist affirmation for our times.
Download or read book Fundamentals of Space Medicine written by Gilles Clément and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-08-09 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This readable text presents findings from the life science experiments conducted during and after space missions. It provides an insight into the space medical community and the real challenges that face the flight surgeon and life science investigator.
Download or read book Inside the Space Race written by Lawrence E. Lamb and published by BookPros, LLC. This book was released on 2006 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [i]Inside the Space Race[/i] is a well documented personal account of one of the most important periods in American history - when the nation was in grave danger of a nuclear attack from space. The author gives an inside look at events, personalities and clashes among individuals who developed the program that enabled the United States to beat the Soviets and send astronauts to the moon.
Download or read book Space Physiology and Medicine written by Arnauld E. Nicogossian and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2009 life science book award from IAA.
Download or read book Medicine and Space written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-12-09 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contributes to medical history in Antiquity and the Middle Ages by significantly widening our understandings of health and treatment through the theme of space . The fundamental question about how space was conceived by different groups of people in these periods has been used to demonstrate the multi-variant understandings of the body and its functions, illness and treatment, and the surrounding natural and built environments in relation to health. The subject is approached from a variety of source materials: medical, philosophical and religious literature, archaeological remains and artistic reproductions. By taking a multi-disciplinary approach to the subject the volume offers new interpretations and methodologies to medical history in the periods in question. Contributors are Helen King, Michael McVaugh, Maithe Hulskamp, Glenda McDonald, Roberto Lo Presti, Fabiola van Dam, Catrien Santing, Ralph Rosen, and Irina Metzler.
Download or read book Fundamentals of Space Medicine written by Gilles Clément and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigations in space have led to fundamental discoveries of the human body to the space environment. Gilles Clément has conducted extensive research in this field. This readable text presents the findings from the life science experiments conducted during and after space missions. About 1200 human space flights have been completed to date, including more than 500 astronauts from various countries, for a combined total presence in space of about 90 years. The first edition of this title was published in 2005 (written in 2003 – 2004), and new data is now available from crewmembers participating in long-duration flights on board the International Space Station (ISS). The number of astronauts who have spent six months in orbit has doubled since 2004. On board the ISS, the astronauts use newly developed pharmaceutical countermeasure for bone loss (such as biophosphonates) and state-of-the-art exercise resistive devices against muscle atrophy and cardiovascular deterioration. The ISS life support systems now use advanced closed-loop systems for meeting the needs of a 6-person crew, including recycling urine to water. Some of these new technologies have potential spin-offs for medical (i.e., sedentary life style, obesity) and environmental issues here on Earth. And finally, there are new space research opportunities with the Orion space vehicle that will soon replace the Space Shuttle, the Moon, and Mars space exploration program that is slowly but surely taking shape, and the space tourism sector that has become a reality. The focus on this edition is the ISS, Orion and planetary exploration, and space tourism. This edition also includes more than 20% new material, along with photographs, data, and video clips for Springer Extras!
Download or read book Space Medicine in Project Mercury written by Mae Mills Link and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ernsting s Aviation and Space Medicine 5E written by David Gradwell and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-01-20 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ernsting's Aviation and Space Medicine applies current understanding in medicine, physiology and the behavioural sciences to the medical challenges and stresses that are faced by both civil and military aircrew, and their passengers, on a daily basis. The fifth edition of this established textbook has been revised and updated by a multi-disciplinar
Download or read book Space Age Research and Medicine written by E.R. Squibb & Sons and published by . This book was released on 1971* with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Physiologic Adaptation of Man in Space written by Albert W. Holland and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook of Aviation and Space Medicine written by Nicholas Green and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-04-18 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly practical guide is ideal for any medical professional who deals with the aerospace environment or is involved in the healthcare of aircrew or individuals preparing for or returning from aerospace travel. The book covers all the main aspects of aerospace medicine, including the salient physiology and clinical aspects in note form for rapid assimilation, and makes plentiful use of figures, algorithms and tables throughout. Key Features: • Comprehensive covering all aspects of clinical aerospace medicine and relevant physiology • Note-based for rapid reference in the clinical setting • Highly practical with illustrations and tables supporting the text throughout • From a highly experienced international team of editors and contributors • Ideal as a handbook companion, complementing the definitive reference Ernsting’s Aviation and Space Medicine, for use ‘on the go’ The book will be an indispensable companion to all civil and military aviation medicine practitioners including those preparing for professional qualifying examinations, and a useful aid for other physicians with an interest in aviation medicine or who are required to inform patients regularly regarding the likely effects of flight, including family practitioners and hospital doctors, physiologists with an interest in the area and occupational and public health personnel.
Download or read book Extreme Medicine written by Kevin Fong, M.D. and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little more than one hundred years ago, maps of the world still boasted white space: places where no human had ever trod. Within a few short decades the most hostile of the world’s environments had all been conquered. Likewise, in the twentieth century, medicine transformed human life. Doctors took what was routinely fatal and made it survivable. As modernity brought us ever more into different kinds of extremis, doctors pushed the bounds of medical advances and human endurance. Extreme exploration challenged the body in ways that only the vanguard of science could answer. Doctors, scientists, and explorers all share a defining trait: they push on in the face of grim odds. Because of their extreme exploration we not only understand our physiology better; we have also made enormous strides in the science of healing. Drawing on his own experience as an anesthesiologist, intensive care expert, and NASA adviser, Dr. Kevin Fong examines how cuttingedge medicine pushes the envelope of human survival by studying the human body’s response when tested by physical extremes. Extreme Medicine explores different limits of endurance and the lens each offers on one of the systems of the body. The challenges of Arctic exploration created opportunities for breakthroughs in open heart surgery; battlefield doctors pioneered techniques for skin grafts, heart surgery, and trauma care; underwater and outer space exploration have revolutionized our understanding of breathing, gravity, and much more. Avant-garde medicine is fundamentally changing our ideas about the nature of life and death. Through astonishing accounts of extraordinary events and pioneering medicine, Fong illustrates the sheer audacity of medical practice at extreme limits, where human life is balanced on a knife’s edge. Extreme Medicine is a gripping debut about the science of healing, but also about exploration in its broadest sense—and about how, by probing the very limits of our biology, we may ultimately return with a better appreciation of how our bodies work, of what life is, and what it means to be human.
Download or read book Physiologic Adaptation of Man in Space written by Albert W. Holland and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Computer Utilization of Time line Medical Data from Man in Space Flight written by Jefferson F. Lindsey and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The NASA medical data program is designed to contribute to (1) the safety of the astronauts while in flight, (2) the development of scientific products, and (3) the standardization of in-flight and ground-based medical data so that they are in a standard and mutually interchangeable form for computer input and analysis. A time-line approach has been developed for accomplishing these purposes. It involves preparing medical data both on magnetic tape and on consecutive data sheets for appropriate portions of all NASA manned space flights. Each data sheet shows the physician all relevant information of interest for a specified time interval - a 10-second interval during stressful periods such as exit and reentry, and a one-minute interval during weightlessness. Data on each successive data sheet includes analog and digital indicators of astronaut beat-to-beat heart rate, pulmonary ventilation, and various spacecraft environmental as well as astronaut performance measures. Identical types of data pertaining to each astronaut have been recorded for comparable time periods for each of the six manned Mercury space flights and the Gemini flights to date, e.g., the periods of exit and reentry, and periods when identical functions were being performed. Selected ground-based medical data also have been prepared in this manner. An ultimate goal is to develop a standardized method to record and store on magnetic tape all useful medical data on a world-wide basis for immediate retrieval in connection with the solution of medical problems to benefit mankind. NASA has already taken the first step in this direction. The NASA approach for space medicine data has been presented in this paper. It can serve as a building block and is open for review, criticism, revision, combination with other approaches, or redirection. These are some of the steps by which progress can be made toward the ultimate goal.
Download or read book Body Space Medicine written by Zhi Chen Guo and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Master Guo distills decades worth of proven clinical practice, research, and his spiritual and energy training Xiu Lian tradition. He combines traditional Chinese techniques with his own cutting-edge developments to present a simple and effective system for treating and preventing illness will be of great interest to medical professionals and lay readers alike. In fact, the essence of Master Guo Body Space Medicine is so simple that anyone can learn it. Body Space Medicine is based on the Message Energy Matter Theory, which states that matter and energy are carriers of information, soul, or message. Body Space Medicine treats illness by using the message or soul of This system can serve all healing needs at the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual levels and is a powerful tool for treating chronic and life-threatening conditions. And because all theory, methodology, and techniques are explained step by step in practical terms, anyone studying this material will quickly understand the key principles in this book and immediately be able to apply them to benefit themselves and others.
Download or read book Trailblazing Medicine written by Erik Seedhouse and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-05-05 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Space medicine has been an important component of the success of human spaceflight and will continue to play a critical role in the future ventures. To prepare for the day when astronauts will leave low Earth orbit for long-duration exploration missions, space medicine experts must develop a thorough understanding of the effects of microgravity on the human body, as well as ways of migrating these effects. To gain a complete understanding of the effects of space on the human body and to create the tools and technologies required for successful exploration, space medicine will become an increasingly collaborative discipline incorporating the skills of physicians, biomedical scientists, engineers, and mission planners. In this work, Dr. Erik Seedhouse examines the future of space medicine in relation to human space exploration. He describes what is necessary to keep a crew alive in space, how it will be accomplished in the future, and the medical challenges faced by interplanetary astronauts. The book is divided into three sections. The first looks at space medicine on board the ISS, where astronaut stays are often of long duration. The second section considers the Exploration Class medical dangers, beginning with radiation and the consequent Acute Radiation Syndrome (ARS). The final section looks at future developments and the importance of telemedicine and how revolutionary technologies will protect interplanetary astronauts from the space environment. The book ends with a description of the kind of hibernation necessary to insure the well being of interplanetary astronauts.
Download or read book Space Research in the Life Sciences written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The achievement of future manned space flight no longer appears to be subject to serious question. Solution of a broad variety of problems involved in the attainment of manned space flight requires extensive scientific activity and progress--but the time is approaching when the scale of accomplishments will be in balance with the scale of requirements. Because the achievement of space flight also requires that man survive and function productively, one of the most important areas of space research resides in the life sciences, more frequently referred to by the term "space medicine."
