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Essays on the History of Respiratory Physiology

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    Chapter 1 Galen and the Beginnings of Western Physiology
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    Chapter 2 Ibn Al-nafis, the Pulmonary Circulation, and the Islamic Golden Age
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    Chapter 3 Torricelli and the Ocean of Air: The First Measurement of Barometric Pressure
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    Chapter 4 Robert Boyle’s Landmark Book of 1660 with the First Experiments on Rarified Air
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    Chapter 5 The Original Presentation of Boyle’s Law
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    Chapter 6 Robert Hooke: Early Respiratory Physiologist, Polymath, and Mechanical Genius
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    Chapter 7 Marcello Malpighi and the Discovery of the Pulmonary Capillaries and Alveoli
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    Chapter 8 Stephen Hales: Neglected Respiratory Physiologist
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    Chapter 9 Joseph Black, Carbon Dioxide, Latent Heat, and the Beginnings of the Discovery of the Respiratory Gases
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    Chapter 10 Carl Wilhelm Scheele, the Discoverer of Oxygen, and a Very Productive Chemist
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    Chapter 11 Joseph Priestley, Oxygen, and the Enlightenment
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    Chapter 12 The Collaboration of Antoine and Marie-Anne Lavoisier and the First Measurements of Human Oxygen Consumption
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    Chapter 13 Henry Cavendish (1731–1810): Hydrogen, Carbon Dioxide, Water, and Weighing the World
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    Chapter 14 Humphry Davy, Nitrous Oxide, the Pneumatic Institution, and the Royal Institution
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    Chapter 15 Denis Jourdanet (1815–1892) and the Early Recognition of the Role of Hypoxia at High Altitude
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    Chapter 16 Centenary of the Anglo-American High Altitude Expedition to Pikes Peak
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    Chapter 17 Alexander M. Kellas and the Physiological Challenge of Mt. Everest
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    Chapter 18 T. H. Ravenhill and His Contributions to Mountain Sickness
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    Chapter 19 George I. Finch and His Pioneering Use of Oxygen for Climbing at Extreme Altitudes
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    Chapter 20 Joseph Barcroft’s Studies of High Altitude Physiology
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    Chapter 21 The Physiological Legacy of the Fenn, Rahn and Otis School
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    Chapter 22 The Physiological Challenges of the 1952 Copenhagen Poliomyelitis Epidemic and a Renaissance in Clinical Respiratory Physiology
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    Chapter 23 Historical Aspects of the Early Soviet/Russian Manned Space Program
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Title
Essays on the History of Respiratory Physiology
Published by
Springer, January 2015
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4939-2362-5
ISBNs
978-1-4939-2362-5, 978-1-4939-2361-8
Authors

John B. West, West, John B.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 62 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 5%
Professor > Associate Professor 2 3%
Lecturer 1 2%
Student > Bachelor 1 2%
Professor 1 2%
Other 3 5%
Unknown 51 82%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Arts and Humanities 3 5%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 5%
Engineering 2 3%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 2%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 2%
Other 1 2%
Unknown 51 82%