Product Information
Written by experienced expeditioners, the handbook is organized in to eight main sections and includes information on fieldcraft, diagnosis and treatment of medical problems encountered during an expedition (divided anatomically), environmental hazards, crisis management and issues to be dealt with after returning home. It also covers basic information about how to plan for an expedition, how to keep the expedition members healthy, how to diagnose and manage their medical problems in remote environments and provide brief summaries of medical problems peculiar to different expedition environments. This pocket-sized book contains all you need to know to minimise health risks, to protect your health and to deal with unexpected medical problems while you are travelling in remote, wilderness areas of the world.Product Identifiers
PublisherOxford University Press
ISBN-139780199296613
eBay Product ID (ePID)87791395
Product Key Features
Number of Pages748 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameOxford Handbook of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine
Publication Year2008
SubjectMedicine
TypeTextbook
AuthorJon Dallimore, Shane Winser, Sarah Anderson, Chris Johnson, David A. Warrell
SeriesOxford Medical Handbooks
Dimensions
Item Height184 mm
Item Weight380 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorChris Johnson, Sarah Anderson, David A. Warrell, Jon Dallimore, Shane Winser