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The biology of human survival : life and death in extreme environments /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. The Human Environment
- The nature of human physical boundaries
- The importance of preparation for extreme exposures
- Some basic concepts of survival analysis
- Characteristics of life-support systems
- 2. Survival and Adaptation
- The science of human physiology
- Principles of physiological regulation and adaptation
- Defining physiological adaptation to the environment
- Acclimatization and acclimation
- 3. Cross-Acclimation
- The complexity of adaptation to environment
- Positive and negative cross-acclimation.
- Biochemical mediators of physiological adaptation
- Stress proteins and the stress response
- 4. Food for Thought
- A brief overview of human starvation
- Starvation: an affliction of the very young and the very old
- Assessing the severity of starvation
- Why children die of starvation
- Other critical factors in human starvation
- Starvation and obesity: strange bedfellows
- The molecular basis of obesity and hunger
- 5. Water and Salt
- The composition of body water
- Why do human food and water requirements differ?
- The body's minimum daily water requirements.
- The mechanism of dehydration and the body's responses
- Dehydration and heat tolerance
- Survival time without drinking water
- 6. Water That Makes Men Mad
- The composition of seawater
- Ingestion of seawater
- Survival at sea
- Lessons from the USS Indianapolis
- A practical approach to salt and water loss at sea
- 7. Tolerance to Heat
- Mammalian homeothermy
- Humans as tropical primates
- Body heat balance
- Heat acclimatization
- Heat acclimatization and physical fitness
- The limitations of human tolerance to heat
- Heat illnesses
- Death by heatstroke.
- 8. Endless Oceans of Sand
- The camel and the Berber
- Desert lessons from Pablo and the Haj
- Thermal stress and behavior
- Importance and regulation of heat-escape activities
- 9. Hypothermia
- The effects of extreme cold on the extremities
- Settings for systemic hypothermia
- The physiology of hypothermia
- Unexpected effects of cold and hypothermia
- The subtle effect of winter on human mortality
- 10. Life and Death on the Crystal Desert
- Life in Antarctica
- The race for the South Pole
- Failure to adapt to Antarctic conditions
- Engineering out the need to tolerate cold.
- Human acclimation to cold
- Estivation
- Hibernation
- Hibernation, energy conservation, and suspended animation
- 11. Survival in Cold Water
- The sinking of the Titanic
- Water temperature and human survival
- Prediction of survival time in cold water
- Survival behavior in cold water
- Hypothermia in deep sea diving
- Respiratory heat losses and slow cooling
- 12. Air as Good as We Deserve
- Life in an oxidizing atmosphere
- Biological oxidations and oxygen toxicity
- Antioxidant defenses and the oxidant-antioxidant balance
- The free radical theory of aging.