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Wilderness Medicine: Management of Wilderness and Environmental Emergencies
3rd ed, edited by Paul S. Auerbach, 1506 pp, $167.50, ISBN 0-8016-7044-6, St Louis, Mo, Mosby—Year Book, 1995.
Herb Giebel, MD, MS, Reviewer;
Winston-Salem, NC, Reviewer
Arch Fam Med. 1995;4(11):981.
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In the past few decades, as urbanization has progressively become a way of life for a growing segment of the population, there has been an in creasing interest in returning to the outdoors for recreation, travel, and livelihood. This has been accompanied by an enlarging body of knowledge and interest in the science of search, rescue, and the delivery of emergency and first-aid care to those in the wilderness and to those who become ill or are injured in the great outdoors. However, there have been few comprehensive texts to help guide the physician in the treatment, care, and prevention of environmental and wilderness-related illnesses and injuries. In 1983, the first edition of Wilderness Medicine: Management of Wilderness and Environmental Emergencies was born "to provide the clinician with a body of knowledge concerned with the interactions between people and the natural environment." Its objective, as stated in the preface, was
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