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Book ID/图书代码： 11320014B74178
English Summary/英文概要： An intensely dramatic challenge to theories of decision-making from a professor at UCL who makes life-or-death decisions under extreme pressure.
When trauma specialist Kevin Fong arrives at a traffic accident that’s minutes old, he has only seconds to save lives. Here, at the extreme edge of cognition, theory is almost meaningless: instinct and training take over. Sometimes, in fact, the theory is dangerously wrong.
From surgery at the roadside to triage on the battlefield, from aviation to high frequency trading, Fong takes us on a visceral journey, telling stories of astonishing skill and catastrophic error, to the limits of human perception in search of the truth about decisions. Blending memoir with reportage and the latest science, his book shows that even the most renowned theories are inadequate when tested against this reality. Given the ever-increasing pace at which we live, he challenges the notion of a ’zero harm’ culture and argues instead for a radical new model of ’graceful failure’: decision-making systems that exploit the inevitability of error as a means to improvement and that mitigate the mess and blur of real decisions made in realtime.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 邝汲荣是伦敦大学的教授，他经常需要在极端的压力下做出生死决定，如今他对这种决策的理论提出了质疑。
每当创伤专家邝教授抵达交通事故的现场时，他往往只有几秒钟来进行抢救。在这种极端的情况下，理论几乎是没有意义的，直觉和经验往往占了上风。实际上，有时候理论反而会使人错误判断。
从马路边的手术到战场上的伤员分类，从航空业到高频率的交易，邝教授带领我们踏上了人体内脏之旅，向我们描述了惊人的技术，无法挽回的判断错误，以及人们在决断中的认知限制。邝教授在书中结合了自己的亲历和最新的科学研究，表明哪怕是最知名的理论在现实中也有失误的时候。邝教授对“零伤害”文化提出了质疑，并提出了一个全新却备受争议的形式“优雅的失败”，这种决策系统会利用错误的不可避免性来使医者在抢救的宝贵时刻减少错误。（XAT）
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About the Author/作者介绍： 邝汲荣教授是伦敦大学重症监护医学的咨询专家，同时也是科学和医学名誉教授。他还参与极端环境下的直升机救助行动。邝教授拥有天体物理学，医学，工程学位，还与美国宇航局合作研究宇宙飞行对人体的影响。他的作品还有《极端：生命，死亡和人体极限》。Professor Kevin Fong is a consultant at UCL specialising in intensive care medicine where he also holds an honorary chair of Public Engagement For Science and Medicine. He also flies with the Helicopter Emergency Medical Service delivering life-saving treatment in the most extreme circumstances. He holds degrees in astrophysics, medicine and engineering and has worked with NASA on the effects of space flight on the human body. He is the author of Extremes: Life, Death and the Limits of the Human Body.
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