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Authors: Kenneth Kamler
calcium,
265–66
Callahan, Steve,
84–85
,
88
,
91–92
,
104–5
,
118
,
119
,
120
,
275
callanques
,
158
calluses,
49
calories, daily requirement,
186
canawaska vine,
61
canoeing in the Amazon Basin,
19–24
,
78–79
capillaries,
193
capsizing at sea,
84–86
carbohydrates in diet,
102–3
carbon dioxide,
87
,
88–87
,
194
,
258
caribou,
203
carotid artery,
225
carotid bodies,
193
Cascabel pit viper,
44
Cassis, France,
158
castaways
health problems of,
100–101
psychology of,
117–20
voluntary,
111
catecholamines,
140
caterpillars,
49
catfish,
77
cave paintings,
159–60
caves
living in, to escape heat,
149
cells,
58
bursting of,
135
death from oxygen lack,
90
membranes of,
180
centrifuge training,
249
cerebellum,
217
cerebral cortex,
118–19
,
131
,
216
,
281–82
cerebral edema,
216–18
cerebrospinal fluid,
217
chanting, medical value of,
1
,
4
,
14
chest,
212
chicha
(drink),
63
children
crying of, purposeful,
28
drowning,
163–64
chonta palm,
73
Chowdhury, Bernie,
172–74
,
280
,
289
climbing
without oxygen,
226
slow, to reach high altitude,
192
clothing
for cold,
184–85
for heat,
147
and side-stepping of evolution,
151
codeine,
216
coffee,
132
cold
clothing for,
184–85
death by,
233
resistance to, by some peoples,
202–4
,
214–15
cold water, survival in, records,
164
Comex,
176
conditioning,
275
conduction,
127
Conga ant,
57
continental plates,
190
convection,
127
Coober Pedy, Australia,
149
coordination, loss of,
217
cormorant,
95–96
cornea,
232
coronary artery,
219
cortisol,
140
cosmic rays,
260–63
Cosquer, Henri,
158–60
coumarin,
68
crampon,
185
crew, space
chosen to get along with each other,
263–64
capturing one,
20–23
Cro-Magnons,
160
crutches and prosthesis,
48
crying,
28
currents, ocean,
181–82
date (food),
149
day and night, rhythm of,
256
,
264–65
“dead man’s float,”
86
death, belief in own,
154–55
,
233
,
289
decision making,
283
Defense Department,
16
Delauze, Henri,
176
delusion,
288
dendrite,
289
desert,
124–55
death in,
134–35
“vaccination” against,
138–39
desert people,
146–51
despair,
136
Dexedrine,
250
diet, human, components of,
102–4
diffusion,
193
digestive tract,
162
diving,
160–82
deep-sea,
13–14
hard-hat,
161
by mammals,
195–96
without a buddy,
156–59
diving bell,
160–61
diving reflex, mammalian,
163
DNA,
261
dog, poisoned,
66–67
dolphin,
97
down (goose),
184
Dramamine,
93
dreams, overriding instinct,
201
recovery from, in children,
163
dysentery,
37
ear
inner, and orientation,
92
,
93
,
247–50
popping,
157
eardrum, ruptured,
162
Ecuador,
18
edema,
120
electric eel,
40
electrolytes,
93
endothelial cells,
229–30
enema, rehydration,
106
environments
human life adapted to,
5
native, destruction of, by outside cultures,
43
,
80–83
enzymes,
142
epileptic seizure,
71
epineurium,
31
erythropoietin,
194–95
ethical standards,
115
Etienne, Jean-Louis,
203
euphoria,
169
eustachian tube,
162
examination table, in the field,
37
exploration, as human instinct,
5
Explorers Club, The,
10
extreme environments, humans in,
4–5
,
13
extreme medicine,
6–16
face,
140
face mask,
180
face paint (medicine man’s),
38–39
,
54
,
65
faith,
292
fangs,
46
fat, body, as insulation,
21–22
,
142
,
150
,
163–64
,
203
feet
humanness of,
114
keeping warm,
185
femoral artery,
225
feral state,
117
Ferreras, Franciso “Pipin,”
164–66
fibrin,
230
Fischer, Scott,
222
,
223–25
,
226–27
fish
deep-dwelling,
179–81
food value of,
103–5
flea,
49–50
flying fish,
105
Foale, Michael,
251
fox, arctic,
203
frog
poison-dart,
59–60
,
66
,
68
,
74
,
81–82
wood,
204
frontal cortex,
71
,
88
,
90
,
202
,
282–83
,
286
fruit,
61
fungus, on feet,
49
fur,
143–44
Gamoff bag,
218
Gardette, Bernard,
176
gas, internal, expansion of,
251–52
genes
survival mechanisms built into,
81–82
genitals, humanness of,
114
germs, mutation of, in outer space,
266
G force,
242–46
gloves,
185
glucagon,
140
glycogen,
112
goals, having, and survival,
279–80
goggles,
185
goose bumps,
199–200
gravity, and space travel,
242–50
,
259–60
,
270–71
Greece,
167
Greeks, ancient,
160
groin,
225
Gulf Stream,
181
gumbolimbo bark,
79
Haise, Fred,
257
hallucinations,
69–70
,
71–72
,
109–11
,
217
,
289
hands
effect of cold,
214–15
humanness of,
114
keeping warm,
185
wounded,
23–34
hangover,
191
Hansen, Henrik,
228
head
humanness of,
114
injuries to,
2–4
vulnerable to cold,
225
heart attack,
218–19
heat (physics), transport of,
127
,
150
heat, ambient
of desert, surviving,
127–35
,
140–41
,
145
heat, internal
from biochemical reactions,
128
dissipation of, through skin,
129–30
,
150
loss of, and slowing of metabolism,
184–85
,
200
from muscle use,
186
regulation of,
128–30