| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.4

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Testing the Limits: Aviation Medicine and the Origins of Manned Space Flight. By Maura Phillips Mackowski. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2006. xii, 289 pp. $49.95, ISBN 1-58544-439-1.)
Maura Phillips Mackowski has filled a critically important gap in the literature of American aerospace history. For all of the scholarly and popular books on virtually every aspect of the aerospace enterprise, there is nothing in print to match this survey of the role that aerospace medicine has played in the history of flight in the United States.	1
The author traces the development and impact of the field through the careers of several major figures. There is Capt. Harry G. Armstrong, who founded the bbbbro Medical Laboratory at Wright Field in the mid-1930s, reinstituted a research program at the U.S. Army School of Aviation Medicine, and spearheaded American work in the field through World War II. His German counterpart, Hubertus Strughold, headed an even more ambitious aviation medicine program, lavishly funded by the Luftwaffe. Armstrong drew the two programs together when he swept through Germany at the end of Word War II, scooping up the records of wartime Nazi aeromedical research and recruiting Strughold and his most important colleagues into an expanded American effort.	. . .

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