"Safe Passage: Astronaut Care for Exploration Missions" ed. by John R. Ball and Charles H. Evans, Jr.
"Safe Passage: Astronaut Care for Exploration Missions" ed. by John R. Ball and Charles H. Evans, Jr.
Committee on Creating a Vision for Space Medicine During Travel Beyond Earth Orbit, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Institute of Medicine
NAS Press | 2001 | ISBN: 0309500095 0309075858 9780309075855 | 318 pages | PDF | 20 MB
Committee on Creating a Vision for Space Medicine During Travel Beyond Earth Orbit, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Institute of Medicine
NAS Press | 2001 | ISBN: 0309500095 0309075858 9780309075855 | 318 pages | PDF | 20 MB
This volume sets forth a vision for space medicine as it applies to deep space voyage. The book examines existing space medicine clinical and behavioral research and health care data and the policies attendant to them. It describes why not enough is known today about the dangers of prolonged travel to enable humans to venture into deep space in a safe and sane manner.
The report makes a number of recommendations concerning NASA s structure for clinical and behavioral research, on the need for a comprehensive astronaut health care system and on an approach to communicating health and safety risks to astronauts, their families, and the public.
Contents
Reviewers
Foreword
Preface
Acronyms
Executive Summary
1 Astronaut Health Beyond Earth Orbit
2 Risks to Astronaut Health During Space Travel
3 Managing Risks to Astronaut Health
4 Emergency and Continuing Care
5 Behavioral Health and Performance
6 Exploring the Ethics of Space Medicine
7 Planning an Infrastructure for Astronaut Health Care
References
APPENDIXES
A: Background and Methodology
B: Committee and Staff Biographies
Index
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