Addresses medical and public health issues involved in the care of crews, passengers, and support personnel of aircraft and space vehicles. Coverage of this book includes human physiology under flight conditions, clinical medicine in the aerospace environment, and the impact of the aviation industry on global public health.

Offers an overview of the physiological foundation for flight, covering the body's reactions to altitude, pressure changes, acceleration, and extreme temperatures; the physiology of the sensory organs; jet lag and exposure to cosmic radiation.

Written by two pilots, this book provides an introduction to the basic concepts of human factors in aviation. It features a section on basic aviation psychology, as well as topics on physiology and high altitude environment and health maintenance. It also includes detail on the physiology of hypoxia and principles of aviation psychology.

Presents the principles of aeromedical transport, featuring research, references and information on the transport of intensive care patients, and medical emergencies/death in flight. This book also discusses the administration and organisation, addressed from the standpoint of the clinical aeromedical escort.

Focuses on the life and work of Nathan Zuntz (1847-1920), a German physiologist, who made significant contributions to high altitude physiology and aviation medicine. This book describes Zuntz's contribution to high altitude physiology and aviation medicine. It discusses high altitude physiology and aviation.

Applies the knowledge in medicine, physiology and the behavioural sciences to the stresses faced by aircrew. This textbook includes chapters on aeromedical evacuation, commercial passenger fitness to fly, transport aircraft and passenger safety cosmic radiation, and naval air operations.

Offers clinical knowledge on how to diagnose and treat conditions that either develop during a mission or because of a mission.

Provides a survey of studies on muscle of rodents flown in space, and reviews the effects of long-term spaceflight and re-entry on skeletal muscle. This work also discusses the problems of providing life support during extended stay on the Moon, on Mars, or in space by means of plant cultivation. It also presents a teaching of space life sciences.

Reviews the effects of space flight on the functioning of the sensory organs primarily used for balance and spatial orientation. This book also describes the disorientation and malaise encountered during early exposure to microgravity and on return to Earth. It contains illustrations, including photographs of equipment and experiments.