Main description:

This edited volume records the critical historical developments in thermal physiology and makes them accessible to new and senior thermal biologists and scientists in related fields. Readers will discover how the discipline developed all over the world. Contributions from 14 different countries recollect all prominent discoveries, starting in the 18th century. Like other volumes of the Perspectives in Physiology series, this book reveals the people behind these discoveries. The authors also set the scenes in which the research was conducted in their countries. From geopolitical frameworks to new technologies and extraordinary personalities - this volume shows that scientific progress is influenced by many, often unforeseeable, factors. The history of thermal physiology not only is a story about individual outstanding scientists, but a testament for open collaboration and international comradery.

Contents:

Chapter 1: A history of thermal physiology in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Republic of Eire Chapter 2: Contributions of French research to the knowledge of thermal physiology from the 18th to the 21st century

Chapter 3: A history of physiological research on temperature regulation in Germany

Chapter 4: Not only winter, not only cold: history of thermal physiology in Finland

Chapter 5: Thermal physiology in the U.S.A.: a 100-year history of the science and its scientists (1880-1980)

Chapter 6: Contributions from a land down under: the arid continent

Chapter 7: History of thermal physiology in Denmark

Chapter 8: South African thermal physiology: highlights from the 20th Century

Chapter 9: Japanese contributions to the development of knowledge of thermal physiology in the 20th Century

Chapter 10:. Thermoregulatory studies in Hungary: historical background

Chapter 11: The history of thermal physiology in Israel

Chapter 12: The history of thermal physiology in Norway

Chapter 13: Development of research on thermoregulatory system in Russia

Chapter 14: History of thermal physiology in Canada