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100 1 Clements, Philip W.,|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names
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245 10 Science in an extreme environment :|bthe 1963 American
Mount Everest expedition /|cPhilip W. Clements.
264 1 [Pittsburgh, Pa.] :|bUniversity of Pittsburgh Press,
|c[2018]
264 4 |c©2018
300 1 online resource (xvii, 269 pages) :|billustrations
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500 Originally presented as a doctoral thesis, Science in
extremis, University of California, San Diego, 2015.
504 Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1.
Creating the Locale; Chapter 2. A Method to Suit the
Locale, a Locale to Match the Method; Chapter 3. Mr.
Dyhrenfurth Goes to Washington; Chapter 4. "The Facts" of
the Abode of Snow; Chapter 5. The Realities of Reality
Testing; Chapter 6. "Climb the Damn Mountain!" Precision,
Objectivity, and Personal Interest; Chapter 7. Science in
Extremis; Chapter 8. From Local to Global; Recapitulation
and Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
520 On February 20, 1963, a team of nineteen Americans
embarked on the first expedition that would combine high-
altitude climbing with scientific research. The primary
objective of the six scientists on the team--who procured
funding by appealing to the military and political
applications of their work--was to study how severe stress
at high altitudes affected human behavior. The expedition
would land the first American on the summit of Mount
Everest nearly three years after a successful (though
widely disputed) Chinese ascent. At the height of the Cold
War, this struggle for the Himalaya turned Everest into
both a contested political space and a remote,
unpredictable laboratory. The US expedition promised to
resurrect American heroism, embodied in a show of physical
strength and skill that, when combined with scientific
expertise, would dominate international rivals on the
frontiers of territorial exploration. It propelled
mountaineers, scientists, and their test subjects 29,029
feet above sea level, the highest point of Chinese-
occupied Tibet. There they faced hostile conditions that
challenged and ultimately compromised standard research
protocols, yielding results that were too exceptional to
be generalized to other environments. With this book,
Philip W. Clements offers a nuanced exploration of the
impact of extremity on the production of scientific
knowledge and the role of masculinity and nationalism in
scientific inquiry.
588 0 Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed
April 26, 2018).
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