PRIMER OF SPACE MEDICINE by Lansberg, M. P. reviewed by Frederick I. Ordway III

From The Space Library

PRIMER OF SPACE MEDICINE

by Lansberg, M. P.

Amsterdam, 1960: Elsevier Publishing Co., 165 pages, $3.25 (available through D. van Nostrand Co., Inc.,

Translated from the Dutch, the book is divided into four parts, each with two or more chapters. They are: (1) introduction (history and problems of space medicine), (2) medical aspects aboard a manned satellite, dynamic conditions, factors involved in the physiology of the sense organs, psychological consequences), (3) medical problems during the passage from the Earth to the satellite and vice versa (man's acceleration tolerance and other problems involved more especially in reentry),and (4) interplanetary flight and conclusions (interplanetary and other flight in free space, concluding remarks).

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