The paper starts with a descripition of the development and the present status of the academy, laboratory and academic journals of Space Medicine, introduces an attempt to systemize the science, and goes on to review the new objectives of space medicine in the following order, based on the influence of weightlessness, the mechanism of life-support system and the influences of prolonged space life which were adopted as the next themes of the Bioastronautics Committee of the International Astronautical Federation, freely utilizing the findings of processors and the author himself.
1. Problems of hypodynamics.
2. Influences of prolonged exposure to high g.
3. The principles of locomotion in outer space.
4. Progress of the life support systems.
5. Biological problems in long termed space life, especially chronobiological problems.
6. Miscellaneous, drawing attention to the problems of radiation and the magnetic field, and introducing the actual monitoring of physiological functions during space mission.
7. Detection of primitive life.
I have endeavoured to show through the above how much depends on the technics of medical electronics, from remote control on information relaying by telemeteres, and disposal of data by computers to the physical and chemical analysis. It may be said that space medicine is the science of artificial environment which must be perfected by the cream of scientists in biotechnology.
By explaining the unique position and system of space medicine, I hope that a better understanding can be reached on space medicine as one applied field of medical electronics and biotechnology.
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