Trailblazing Medicine

✍ Scribed by Erik Seedhouse M.Med.Sc., Ph.D., FBIS (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 197
• Series: Springer Praxis Books
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

To prepare for the day when astronauts leave low-Earth orbit for long-duration exploration missions, space medicine experts must develop a thorough understanding of the effects of microgravity on the human body, as well as ways of mitigating them. To gain a complete understanding of the effects of space on the human body and to create tools and technologies required for successful exploration, space medicince will become an increasingly collaborative discipline incorporating the skills of physicians, biomedical scientists, engineers, and mission planners.

Trailblazing Medicine

• examines the future of space medicine in relation to human space exploration;
• describes what is necessary to keep a crew alive in space, including the use of surgical robots, surface-based telemedicine, and remote emergency care;
• discusses bioethical problems such as euthanasia, sex, and precautionary surgery;
• investigates the medical challenges faced by interplanetary astronauts;
• details the process of human hibernation.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Medicine onboard the International Space Station....Pages 3-13
Interplanetary health care....Pages 15-37
Medical qualification for exploration class missions....Pages 39-53
Front Matter....Pages 55-55
Radiation....Pages 57-75
Bone loss....Pages 77-90
Behavior and performance....Pages 91-112
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
Bioethics, sex, and cloning....Pages 115-139
Robotic surgery and telemedicine....Pages 141-157
Stasis....Pages 159-172
Back Matter....Pages 173-180

✦ Subjects

Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences; Popular Science in Astronomy; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics; Occupational Medicine/Industrial Medicine; Human Physiology