LEADER 04460nam 22006855 450 001 9910253918403321 005 20200703112612.0 010 $a1-4939-7122-0 024 7 $a10.1007/978-1-4939-7122-0 035 $a(CKB)3710000001417928 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-4939-7122-0 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4890268 035 $a(PPN)20298866X 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001417928 100 $a20170627d2017 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBreathing on the Roof of the World $eMemoir of a Respiratory Physiologist /$fby John B. West 205 $a1st ed. 2017. 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cSpringer New York :$cImprint: Springer,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (VIII, 156 p. 67 illus., 37 illus. in color.) 225 1 $aSpringer Biographies,$x2365-0613 311 $a1-4939-7121-2 327 $a- Early Days, 1928-1945 -- Adelaide University and Medical Residency, 1946-1953 -- London and Llandough, 1953-1956.-Postgraduate Medical School, 1956-1960 -- Silver Hut Expedition, 1960-1961 -- University of Buffalo and the Postgraduate Medical School, 1961-1967 -- Palo Alto and the NASA Ames Research Center, 1967-1968 -- University of California, San Diego, 1969-1981 -- American Medical Research Expedition to Everest, 1981 -- Studies on astronauts in space -- Other research projects -- Comments on scientific achievements. 330 $aThis book is an informal autobiography by John West MD PhD. He obtained his medical degree in Adelaide, Australia and then spent 15 years mainly at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital in London where he, with others, used radioactive oxygen-15 to make the first description of the uneven regional distribution of blood flow in the lung. In 1960-1961, he was a member of the Himalayan Scientific and Mountaineering Expedition led by Sir Edmund Hillary who had made the first ascent of Mt Everest 7 years before. During the expedition about 6 scientists spent up to three months at an altitude of 5800 m studying the effects of this very high altitude on human physiology. Because of his interests in the effects of gravity on the lung, Dr. West spent a year at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California in 1967-1968. While there he submitted a proposal to NASA to measure pulmonary function of astronauts in space, and this was funded. Later, in 1981 he organized the American Medical Research Expedition to Everest during which the first measurements of human physiology on the summit, altitude 8848 m, were obtained. In the 1990?s, Dr. West?s team made the first comprehensive measurements of pulmonary function of astronauts in space using SpaceLab which was taken up in the Shuttle. 410 0$aSpringer Biographies,$x2365-0613 606 $aHuman physiology 606 $aHistory 606 $aSports sciences 606 $aRespiratory organs?Diseases 606 $aSpace sciences 606 $aHuman Physiology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/B13004 606 $aHistory of Science$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/731000 606 $aSport Science $3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/L29010 606 $aPneumology/Respiratory System$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/H33134 606 $aSpace Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P22030 608 $aAutobiography. 608 $aBiographies.$2fast 615 0$aHuman physiology. 615 0$aHistory. 615 0$aSports sciences. 615 0$aRespiratory organs?Diseases. 615 0$aSpace sciences. 615 14$aHuman Physiology. 615 24$aHistory of Science. 615 24$aSport Science . 615 24$aPneumology/Respiratory System. 615 24$aSpace Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics). 676 $a612.0092241 700 $aWest$b John B$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0633685 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910253918403321 996 $aBreathing on the Roof of the World$91523685 997 $aUNINA