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Respiratory physiology : people and ideas / edited by John B. West.

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  1. Respiratory physiology : people and ideas / edited by John B. West.
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  1. New York : Published for the American Physiological Society by Oxford University Press, 1996.

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  1. American Physiological Society (1887- ) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50060285
  2. West, John B. (John Burnard)
Description
  1. x, 431 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Subject
  1. Respiration > physiology
  2. Physiology > history
  3. Lung > physiology
  4. Respiratory organs > Physiology > History
Contents
  1. 1. The Structural Basis of Lung Function / Ewald R. Weibel -- 2. Transfer of Gas by Diffusion and Chemical Reaction in Pulmonary Capillaries / Robert E. Forster II -- 3. Blood Gas Transport and Analysis / Poul Astrup and John W. Severinghaus -- 4. Lung Liquid and Solute Exchange / Norman C. Staub, Sr. -- 5. Pulmonary Blood Flow and Gas Exchange / John B. West -- 6. Mechanics of Lung and Chest Wall / Jere Mead -- 7. Lung Surface Tension and Surfactant: The Early Years / John A. Clements -- 8. Modern History of Respiratory Muscle Physiology / Peter T. Macklem -- 9. Rhythm Generation / Curt von Euler -- 10. The History of Chemoreception / Robert S. Fitzgerald and Sukhamay Lahiri -- 11. Airway and Pulmonary Afferents and Reflexes: A Historical Survey / John Widdicombe and Giuseppe Sant'Ambrogio -- 12. A Brief History of Comparative Respiratory Physiology: Some Ideas and Their Proponents / S. Marsh Tenney.
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  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. 1ncludes bibliographies.