Extreme Medicine by Kevin Fong EPUB (Perseu) torrent

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.

Extreme Medicine: How Exploration Transformed
Medicine in the Twentieth Century
By: Kevin Fong
ISBN13: 9781594204708
Format: EPUB
Language: EN
Pages: 509