AEROSPACE MEDICINE by Armstrong, H. G. (ed) reviewed by Frederick I. Ordway III

From The Space Library

AEROSPACE MEDICINE

by Armstrong, H. G. (ed)

Baltimore, 1961: Williams and Wilkins Co., 633 pages, $18.00

This book is the successor to the earlier "Principles and Practice of Aviation Medicine"; however, it must be considered an essentially new book and not merely a fourth edition of the former work. Probing as deeply into space medicine as it does in aviation medicine, it has 11 entirely new chapters of a total of 32. There are 21 contributing authors to the book besides the editor (who supplies 11 chapters). Among the many subjects covered are: general physical examination; eye, cardiovascular, ear, nose, throat and neuropsychic examination; psychologic methods of crew selection; the atmosphere; altitude sickness; breathing oxygen; decompression sickness; medical aspects of pressurized equipment; vertigo and related states; effects of radial, angular and linear accelerations; effects of acoustic energy; temperature stresses; escape, survival and rescue; aeromedical evacuation; aerial hygiene and sanitation; space medicine; and planetary atmospheres.

Extracted from the 1962 Publication Annotated Bibliography of Space Science and Technology with an Astronomical Supplement - A History of Astronautical Book Literature 1931 - 1961. by Frederick I. Ordway III