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Links to other High Altitude Medicine websites and useful references.
General information
British National Mountaineering Council
www.thebmc.co.uk
Mountain medicine area of British National Mountaineering Council website compiled by neurologist and mountain medicine expert Dr Charlie Clarke
High Altitude Medicine Guide
www.high-altitude-medicine.com
Excellent general information site maintained by Thomas E. Dietz, MD (Emergency & Wilderness Medicine doctor) from Oregon, USA
Organisations
Medex/Medical Expedition
www.medex.org.uk
UK based organisations: Medical Expeditions is a research charity dedicated to investigating the mechanisms of altitude related illness. Medex is a club that provides support for the charitable works of Medical Expeditions.
International Society for Mountain Medicine
www.ismmed.org
(founded in 1985). Its goals are to bring together physicians, scientists and allied professionals interested in mountain medicine, to encourage research on all aspects of mountains, mountain peoples and mountaineers and to spread scientific and practical information about mountain medicine around the world.
Himalayan Rescue Association
www.himalayanrescue.com
Kathmandu, Nepal. Volunteer physician staffed aid posts at Pheriche (Khumbu) and Manang (Annurpurna) and soon Everest Base Camp.
Wilderness Medical Society
www.wms.org
US based organisation for medical professionals interested in wilderness environments and the life sciences
International Commission for Alpine Rescue
www.mountainmedicine.org
Austrian Society for Alpine and High Altitude Medicine
www.alpinmedizin.org
Swiss Mountain Medicine Society
www.mountainmedicine.ch
Institutes, Centres, etc
Centre for Aviation, Space and Extreme environment medicine, University College London, London, UK
www.case.ucl.ac.uk
High Altitude Pathology Institute, La Paz, Bolivia
www.geocities.com
High Altitude Medicine/Physiology Books
Reference Texts
High Altitude Medicine and Physiology
(3rd Edition, December 2000)
James S Milledge, John B West and Michael P Ward
High Altitude Medicine and Pathology
(4th Edition, April 1995)
Donald Heath and David Reid Williams
High Altitude Medicine
Herb Hultgren
www.highaltitudemedicine.com
Excellent book by legendary high altitude medicine guru
Practical Clinical Handbook
The High Altitude Medicine Handbook
(June 1997)
Andrew J Pollard and David R Murdoch
Historical Overview
High Life: A History of High-Altitude Physiology and Medicine
(1st Edition, July 1998)
John B West
Excellent Lay-man's account:
Going high, the story of man and altitude
OUT OF PRINT
Charles S Houston
Additional Literature
High Altitude: An Exploration of Human Adaptation (Lung Biology in Health and Disease, 161)
(September 2001)
Thomas F Hornbein and Robert B Schoene (editors)
High Altitude: Illness and Wellness
(May 1993)
OUT OF PRINT
Charles S Houston
High Altitude and Man
(May 1995)
OUT OF PRINT
John B West and Sukhamay Lahiri (editors)
Mountain Medicine: A Clinical Study of Cold and High Altitude
(February 1977)
OUT OF PRINT
Michael P Ward
Man at high altitude: the pathophysiology of acclimatization and adptation
OUT OF PRINT
Donald Heath
Bibliography of High Altitude Medicine and Physiology
annie.cv.nrao.edu/habibqbe
University of California San Diego Historical Collection in High Altitude Medicine and Physiology
orpheus.ucsd.edu/phys/archives
High Altitude Medicine/Physiology Journals
High Altitude Medicine and Biology
www.liebertpub.com/HAM/default1.asp
Quarterly specialist journal published by Marie-Anne Libert since March 2000 edited by the legendary Professor John West. Official journal of ISMM (see above)
Wilderness and Environmental Medicine
www.wms.org/members/author_instr.htm
Quarterly official international journal of the Wilderness Medical Society. Published quarterly. Formerly Journal of Wilderness Medicine.
Research Facilities
www.montagna.org/Comitato-EvK2-CNR/index.asp
Other Interesting Sites
Altitude Training for Sea-Level Competition
www.sportsci.org/traintech/altitude/wgh.html
A Baker, MD, San Diego, California, USA; WG Hopkins, PhD, Physiology and Physical Education, University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ.
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