05315nam 2200757Ia 450 991096506490332120200520144314.00-19-773743-91-280-53383-897866105338310-19-974807-11-4237-8497-910.1093/oso/9780195165012.001.0001(CKB)1000000000463118(EBL)3053631(OCoLC)70215878(SSID)ssj0000112064(PQKBManifestationID)11141202(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000112064(PQKBWorkID)10086155(PQKB)10240523(Au-PeEL)EBL3053631(CaPaEBR)ebr10375119(CaONFJC)MIL53383(OCoLC)1406788351(StDuBDS)9780197737439(MiAaPQ)EBC3053631(EXLCZ)99100000000046311820030107d2003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe biology of human survival life and death in extreme environments /Claude A. Piantadosi1st ed.New York Oxford University Press20031 online resource (280 p.)Oxford scholarship onlineFormerly CIP.UkPreviously issued in print: 2003.0-19-516501-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-254) and index.""Contents""; ""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""This volume identifies the key determinants of life or death in extreme environments from a physiologist's perspective, integrating modern concepts of stress, tolerance, and adaptation into explanations of life under nature's most austere conditions.Oxford scholarship online.Extreme environmentsAdaptation (Biology)Human physiologyExtreme environments.Adaptation (Biology)Human physiology.612Piantadosi Claude A1851818MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910965064903321The biology of human survival4446143UNINA