Space Physiology and Medicine

This title brings practitioners up to date with contemporary science, focusing on space-flight and micro-gravity environments. The text aims to increase understanding of new improvements in monitoring the space environment and delivering medical care to remote locations.

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The Fourth Edition of Space Physiology and Medicine will bring practitioners up to date with current science with a unique focus on space flight and micro gravity environments. The content is especially relevant in light of recent missions and NASA's Extended Duration Orbiter Medical Project, which seeks to ameliorate the effects of long-term space flights, as well as the International Space Station Program. Readers will increase their understanding of micro gravity, and new improvements in monitoring the space environment and delivering medical care to remote locations. The text reviews the last 37 years of space physiology and medicine, and establishes research goals for the next century. Senator John Glenn provides the new Foreword