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Nick Kanas
Behavioral Health and Human Interactions in Space
English · Paperback / Softback
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Description
This book is a winner of International Academy of Astronautics 2023 Life Science Book Award.
This textbook covers the range of psychological and interpersonal issues that can affect astronauts living and working in space. It deals with the three major risk areas cited by NASA's Behavioral Health and Performance Element: Behavioral Medicine, Team Risk, and Sleep Risk.
Based on the author's more than 50 years of experience in space-related activities writing, conducting research, and teaching undergraduate and graduate courses, the book follows a comprehensive range of topics that include: cognitive effects; psychiatric issues; cultural influences; salutogenic and positive aspects of space travel; autonomy and delayed communication; current plans to return to the Moon and Mars; analysis of study environments such as the polar regions, submersible habitats, and space simulation facilities; and more. It draws on research, literature, and case studies from the 1950s onward, showing readers in a natural and accessible way how the field has progressed over time.
The book contains ample end-of-chapter summaries and exercises as well as a complete glossary of key terms. As such, it will serve students taking courses in aerospace psychology, psychiatry, sociology, human factors, medicine, and related social sciences, in addition to space industry professionals and others interested in the complexities of people living and working in space.
List of contents
Chapter 1. Stress, Sleep, and Cognition in Microgravity.- Chapter 2. Living and Working in Space.- Chapter 3. Emotional Highs and Lows.- Chapter 4. Crewmember Selection, Ground and Family Support.- Chapter 5. Human Interactions, Culture, and Team Behavior.- Chapter 6. Countermeasures for Near-Earth Space Missions.- Chapter 7. Commercial Human Spaceflight.- Chapter 8. Artemis and the Psychosociology of Lunar Colonies.- Chapter 9. Expeditions to Mars and Beyond.- Chapter 10. Appendix. Introductory quotations and conclusions from NASA TM X-58067 (1971): Behavioral, Psychiatric, and Sociological Problems of Long-Duration Space Missions (N.A. Kanas & William E. Fedderson).
About the author
Dr. Kanas is an Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He trained at Stanford University (B.A. Psychology), UCLA Medical School (M.D. 1971), University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston (Internship), and UCSF (Psychiatry Residency 1975). After serving in the USAF as a psychiatrist from 1975-1977, he joined the faculty at UCSF and the affiliated San Francisco VA Medical Center, where he conducted clinical and research work on people suffering from stressful conditions. He has over 220 professional publications and is the recipient of the Dr. J. Elliott Royer Award for academic psychiatry.
Dr. Kanas has studied and written about psychological and interpersonal issues affecting people working in space for over 50 years and has done space-related research since the late 1980s. For over 15 years thereafter he was an NSBRI and NASA-funded principal investigator, doing psychological research with astronauts and cosmonauts on the Mir and International Space Stations and in space simulators. He is a member and former trustee of the International Academy of Astronautics.
Summary
This book is a winner of International Academy of Astronautics 2023 Life Science Book Award.
This textbook covers the range of psychological and interpersonal issues that can affect astronauts living and working in space. It deals with the three major risk areas cited by NASA’s Behavioral Health and Performance Element: Behavioral Medicine, Team Risk, and Sleep Risk.
Based on the author’s more than 50 years of experience in space-related activities writing, conducting research, and teaching undergraduate and graduate courses, the book follows a comprehensive range of topics that include: cognitive effects; psychiatric issues; cultural influences; salutogenic and positive aspects of space travel; autonomy and delayed communication; current plans to return to the Moon and Mars; analysis of study environments such as the polar regions, submersible habitats, and space simulation facilities; and more. It draws on research, literature, and case studies from the 1950s onward, showing readers in a natural and accessible way how the field has progressed over time.
The book contains ample end-of-chapter summaries and exercises as well as a complete glossary of key terms. As such, it will serve students taking courses in aerospace psychology, psychiatry, sociology, human factors, medicine, and related social sciences, in addition to space industry professionals and others interested in the complexities of people living and working in space.
Additional text
“For students of aerospace psychiatry, medicine, and psychology, and for other people working in the aerospace industry or the general public, this work amply reviews the field and provides a broad, rich wealth of information in a scholarly fashion. Dr. Kanas’s book is a cogent, practical textbook that focuses on the most fragile element of human space exploration: the human element. I highly recommend this book … .” (Charles H. Dukes, Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance, Vol. 94 (8), August, 2023)
“This book … is really the guidelines or criteria of healthy behavior for human space travel, either non-commercial or commercial. Writing to be a textbook, the contents are considered to be more than rich, sufficient and exhaustive. More importantly, the book guides students and readers from shallow to deep with the in-depth academic theory as basics and the easy understandable features as phenomena. … Throughout the book, there are enormous amount of statistical data, figures … .” (Acta Astronautica, June 1, 2023)
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"For students of aerospace psychiatry, medicine, and psychology, and for other people working in the aerospace industry or the general public, this work amply reviews the field and provides a broad, rich wealth of information in a scholarly fashion. Dr. Kanas's book is a cogent, practical textbook that focuses on the most fragile element of human space exploration: the human element. I highly recommend this book ... ." (Charles H. Dukes, Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance, Vol. 94 (8), August, 2023)
"This book ... is really the guidelines or criteria of healthy behavior for human space travel, either non-commercial or commercial. Writing to be a textbook, the contents are considered to be more than rich, sufficient and exhaustive. More importantly, the book guides students and readers from shallow to deep with the in-depth academic theory as basics and the easy understandable features as phenomena. ... Throughout the book, there are enormous amount of statistical data, figures ... ." (Acta Astronautica, June 1, 2023)
Product details
| Authors | Nick Kanas |
| Publisher | Springer, Berlin |
| Languages | English |
| Product format | Paperback / Softback |
| Released | 03.02.2024 |
| EAN | 9783031167256 |
| ISBN | 978-3-0-3116725-6 |
| No. of pages | 402 |
| Dimensions | 155 mm x 24 mm x 235 mm |
| Illustrations | XLV, 402 p. 79 illus., 71 illus. in color. |
| Subjects |
Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology
> Physics, astronomy
> Astronomy
Gesundheitspsychologie, Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein, Luft- und Raumfahrttechnik, Astronautik (Raumfahrttechnik), Health psychology, Aerospace Technology and Astronautics, Space Exploration and Astronautics, human factors in space, Space Studies, NASA Behavioral Health and Performance, aerospace psychology, Behavioral Medicine, Team Risk, and Sleep Risk, aerospace sociology, aerospace medicine, aerospace psychiatry |
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