The Biology of Human Survival
Life and Death in Extreme Environments
Seiten
2003
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-516501-2 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-516501-2 (ISBN)
This book explains how humans can live in extreme environments from a physiologist's perspective, using modern concepts of stress, tolerance and adaptation. It examines how individuals cope with life under extremes, emphasizing the body's recognition of stress and the brain's role in the responses needed to escape or to adapt.
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, emphasising the body's recognition of stress and the brain's role in optimising 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 behaviour 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. Finally, it explores the role that advanced technology might play in special environments of the future, such as long journeys into space.
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, emphasising the body's recognition of stress and the brain's role in optimising 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 behaviour 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. Finally, it explores the role that advanced technology might play in special environments of the future, such as long journeys into space.
1. The Human Environment ; 2. Survival and Adaptation ; 3. Cross-Acclimation ; 4. Food for Thought ; 5. Water and Salt ; 6. Water That Makes Men Mad ; 7. Tolerance to Heat ; 8. Endless Oceans of Sand ; 9. Hypothermia ; 10. Life on the Crystal Desert ; 11. Survival in Cold Water ; 12. Air as Good as We Deserve ; 13. Bends and Rapture of the Deep ; 14. Sunken Submarines ; 15. Climbing Higher ; 16. Into the Wild Blue Yonder ; 17. G Whiz ; 18. The Gravity of Microgravity ; 19. Weapons of Mass Destruction ; 20. Human Prospects for Colonising Space
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.10.2003 |
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| Zusatzinfo | numerous tables, figures and black and white photographs |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 241 x 165 mm |
| Gewicht | 612 g |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Arbeits- / Sozial- / Umweltmedizin |
| Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Physiologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-516501-2 / 0195165012 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-516501-2 / 9780195165012 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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