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24%OFFKevin Fong - Extremes: How Far Can You Go to Save a Life? - 9781444737776 - V9781444737776
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Extremes: How Far Can You Go to Save a Life?

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Description for Extremes: How Far Can You Go to Save a Life? Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, 2 X 8pp colour. BIC Classification: MFG; PDZ; PSX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 254.

In anaesthetist Dr Kevin Fong's television programmes he has often demonstrated the impact of extremes on the human body by using his own body as a 'guinea pig'. So Dr Fong is well placed to share his experience of the sheer audacity of medical practice at extreme physiological limits, where human life is balanced on a knife edge.

Through gripping accounts of extraordinary events and pioneering medicine, Dr Fong explores how our body responds when tested by the extremes of heat and cold, vacuum and altitude, age and disease. He shows how science, technology and medicine have ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781444737776
SKU
V9781444737776
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50

About Kevin Fong
Kevin Fong is a doctor of medicine with a special interest in human space exploration and the medical challenges of living and working in extreme environments. He is a lecturer in physiology at University College London and has worked with NASA at Johnson Space Center in Houston. He currently works as a consultant anaesthetist at University College London Hospital, is ... Read more

Reviews for Extremes: How Far Can You Go to Save a Life?
'It would be hard to find anyone better qualified to write a book on the limits of human physiology than Dr Kevin Fong. His experiences in human spaceflight at NASA, in frontline medicine, and his deep scientific knowledge, shine through. If you want to know what the human body can take, and why we must continue to push ourselves beyond ... Read more

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