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The Biology of Human Survival: Life and Death in Extreme Environments Piantadosi, Claude A. (, Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Environmental PhysiologyDuke University Medical Center, North Carolina, USA)
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The Biology of Human Survival: Life and Death in Extreme Environments
Piantadosi, Claude A. (, Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Environmental PhysiologyDuke University Medical Center, North Carolina, USA)
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.
280 pages, numerous tables, figures and black and white photographs
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | October 30, 2003 |
| ISBN13 | 9780195165012 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 280 |
| Dimensions | 243 × 164 × 25 mm · 587 g |
| Language | English |
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