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By Oleg Y. Atkov and Victor S. Bednenko. 560 pp. Madison, Conn., International Universities Press, 1992. $60. ISBN 0-8236-2415-3.

In recent years there has been a trickle of books and a number of general medical articles dealing with the medical problems encountered by humans during space flight. A recent example is Space Physiology and Medicine (edited by A.E. Nicogossian, C.L. Huntoon, and S.L. Pool. Philadelphia: Lea and Febiger, 1989), which made a clear statement about American research (with some data from Canada, the European Space Agency, other Western space laboratories, and the Soviet Union) that defined an area of biomedical science: changes in human structure and function associated with space flight.

Now comes a book from the other side . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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