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Testing the Limits: Aviation Medicine and the Origins of Manned Space Flight.(Book review)

Publication: Air Power History
Publication Date: 22-MAR-07
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Testing the Limits: Aviation Medicine and the Origins of Manned Space Flight. By Maura Phillips Mackowski. College Station: Texas A&M Press, 2006. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xii, 289. $49.95 ISBN: 1-58544-439-1

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...roots, somewhat entwined in recent history by the desire to go faster and higher. Aviation medicine, on the other hand, became space medicine's taproot. Maura Phillips Mackowski introduces Testing the Limits by tracing the evolutionary growth of space medicine from the recognition of aviation medicine as a professional specialty, through the...

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