RT Book, Section A1 DeHart, Roy L. A2 Wallace, Robert B. SR Print(0) ID 1141972328 T1 Aerospace Medicine T2 Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health and Preventive Medicine, 15e YR 2017 FD 2017 PB McGraw-Hill Medical PP New York, NY SN 9780071441988 LK accessbiomedicalscience.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1141972328 RD 2024/03/29 AB Aerospace medicine is “that specialty of medical practice within preventive medicine that focuses on the health of a population group defined by the operating aircrews and passengers of air and space vehicles, together with the support personnel who are required to operate and maintain them.”1 The practice of aerospace medicine tends to reverse the usual order of traditional or curative medicine. Normally the physician is treating abnormal physiology (illness) in a normal (terrestrial) environment. The physician concerned with the care of the aviator or astronaut most frequently deals with a normal (perhaps supernormal) individual in an abnormal (aeronautical) environment.