Overview
- It treats the topic of the human body functioning under work conditions.
- The text is up-to-date, solid and avoids jargon: Easy to read, easy to use
- Established book; already in its 4th edition
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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About this book
This book discusses the architecture, functioning, and biomechanics of the human body, its bones, joints, muscles, tendons, and ligaments. The book explains energy extraction from food and drink, what efforts the body is capable of, and how our efforts depend on the coordination among the respiratory, circulatory, and metabolic systems. This text shows how the body monitors itself, how it reacts to work loads and the environment such as heat or cold, humidity and wind. The book also explains how to measure a person’s ability to work at high efficiency: by observation of breathing rate, heart beat frequency, oxygen consumption, and by careful evaluation of subjective judgements.The text discusses, in practical terms, effects of environmental conditions and how shift work arrangements during day, evening, and night affect task performance.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Engineering Physiology
Book Subtitle: Bases of Human Factors Engineering/ Ergonomics
Authors: Karl H. E. Kroemer, Hiltrud J. Kroemer, Katrin E. Kroemer-Elbert
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12883-7
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-44110-3Published: 07 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-12883-7Published: 09 August 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 338
Additional Information: 3rd edition was published in 1997 by VNR (now Wiley)
Topics: Engineering Design, Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering, Human Physiology, Solid Mechanics