Introduction: American Medical Research Expedition To Everest

West, John B.

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John B. West³

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several chapters of this book describe work carried out during the course of the 1981 American Medical Research Expedition to Everest. The purpose of this brief introduction is to give some of the background to this unusual expedition.

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Section of Physiology, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
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Section of Physiology, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
John B. West
Department of Physiology, Institute for Environmental Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Sukhamay Lahiri

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West, J.B. (1984). Introduction: American Medical Research Expedition To Everest. In: West, J.B., Lahiri, S. (eds) High Altitude and Man. Clinical Physiology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7525-5_1

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