Critical review of current trends shows that there is tendency to underestimate biochemical problems of spaceflight; as long as present research trends continue, space travel will be restricted to `elite,' of highly-trained, young adults; examples selected from field of gastroenterology show how, with advent of commercial spaceflight, problems may result from present failure to explore effect of space travel upon diseases which affect man. (33133)


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    Title :

    Medicine or physiology in space


    Additional title:

    J Brit Interplanet Soc


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    1968


    Size :

    8 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


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