BIO-ASSAY TECHNIQUES FOR HUMAN CENTRIFUGES AND PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF ACCELERATION by Bergeret, P. (ed) reviewed by Frederick I. Ordway III

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BIO-ASSAY TECHNIQUES FOR HUMAN CENTRIFUGES AND PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF ACCELERATION

by Bergeret, P. (ed)

New York, 1961: Pergamon Press, Inc., 176 pages, $10.00

This book was published for and on behalf of the Advisory Group for Aeronautical Research and Development (AGARD) and contains a number of contributions on centrifuges and acceleration including: "The Human Centrifuge and its Application to Pilot Selection," "A Review of the Physiological Effects of Angular Accelerations," "Instrumentation and the Human Centrifuge," "A Discussion on Restraint and Protection of the Human Experiencing the Smooth and Oscillating Accelerations of Proposed Space Vehicles," "The Effects of Forward Acceleration on Respiration," and an appendix entitled "Medical Machine Record Cards—Their Development and Use in the Astronaut Selection Program."


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