Medico-Legal Aspects of Aviation. Recent Advances in Aerospace Medicine: Life Support and Physiology

摘要

The volume contains the text of twenty nine papers presented at the 26th Meeting of the Aerospace Medical Panel of AGARD. The main theme was 'Medico-Legal Aspects of Aviation', divided into three sections: Legal medicine in a strict sense, with papers on toxicology, pathology and international law; Accidents, with papers on acoustic damage, traumatic illness, ejection, radar exposure, barotrauma; Clinical, with papers on pathology, ophtalmology, selection of personnel. A collateral theme was 'Recent Advances in Aerospace Medicine', which was divided into two sections: Life support (ergonomics, aviation occupational medicine, contributions of NASA research work); Physiology (stress biochemistry, circadian rhythms, histological alterations in hyperoxia, vestibular function in weightlessness). A list of the participants, with their addresses, is given. The volume closes with the Panel Chairman's concluding remarks and with a Technical Summary which also includes the discussion on the papers. (Author)