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Copyright © 2012 by Kevin Fong
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Published in Great Britain under the title Extremes: Life, Death and the Limits of the Human Body by Hodder & Stoughton
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Fong, Kevin.
Extreme medicine : how exploration transformed medicine in the twentieth century / Kevin Fong.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-698-15161-1
1. First aid in illness and injury. 2. Extreme environments—Health aspects. 3. Adventure travel—Health aspects. 4. Space flight—Health aspects. I. Title.
RC86.7.F66 2014
616.02'52—dc23
2013028124
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