Cover art for Extremes: Life, Death and the Limits of the Human Body
Published
Hodder & Stoughton, April 2013
ISBN
9781444737752
Format
Softcover, 320 pages
Dimensions
23.3cm × 15.5cm × 2.7cm

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Drawing on his own experiences in trauma surgery as an anaesthetist and intensive care expert, this is Kevin Fong's account of the way cutting-edge medicine is pushing the envelope of human survival. He explores what it means to be alive by looking at life's boundaries - at the human body's response when tested by the extremes of heat and cold, vacuum and altitude, age and disease - and show how science, technology and medicine have taken what was once lethal in the world and made it survivable.

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