Aerospace medicine

ABSTRACT

This paper presented briefly the different areas of discipline in aviation medicine and space medicine. The importance of having a basic knowledge in aviation medicine among the students, general medical practitioners and other personnel who have something to do with the equipment and aircraft design and manufacture is discussed. The presentation of the subject of space medicine touched only the well-known highlights of the present knowledge of the properties of space and the different problems that concern the human factor in manned space flights. (Summary)