Quick Reads: "Extreme Medicine" by Kevin Fong

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Extreme Medicine

By Kevin Fong

THE PENGUIN PRESS

The devil’s in the physiological details as physician, NASA adviser, and outdoor fanatic Kevin Fong explores how feats at the edge of possibility—from the first major Antarctica expedition a century ago to the first manned landing on Mars at some future date—rely upon and, in turn, inform an ever-greater understanding of our own biology. With clear, evocative prose, he takes readers to ocean depths and mountaintops, and also deep within our bodies, in this entertaining exploration of human limits.

This review originally appeared in our January/February 2014 issue of Mother Jones.

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Quick Reads: "Extreme Medicine" by Kevin Fong

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