Biology of Human Survival
Life and Death in Extreme Environments
«Piantadosi's book is a superb primer in the field and deserves a very wide readership.»
Physiology News, Number 55, Summer 2004
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. Les mer
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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.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Oxford University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780195165012
- Utgivelsesår
- 2003
- Format
- 24 x 16 cm
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«Piantadosi's book is a superb primer in the field and deserves a very wide readership.»
Physiology News, Number 55, Summer 2004
«This is an engaging and accessible work of intellectual synthesis that allows the reader to appreciate how the big and the small fit into the integrated system that is the human organism. The book rests on a foundation of broad and solid scholarship, and is of considerable practical utility . . . It could serve well as a textbook in a variety of courses at either undergraduate or graduate level. As a practicing physiologist, I enjoyed the broad view it provided of my discipline . . . some may just read it for the pleasure of learning the marvelous ways the human organism adapts to its environment.»
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