Research Catalog

Title

Diet and disease : in traditional and developing societies / edited by G.A. Harrison and J.C. Waterlow.

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Harrison, G. A. (Geoffrey Ainsworth), 1927-2017
• Waterlow, J. C. (John Conrad)
• International Commission on Anthropology of Food and Food Problems.

Description

ix, 335 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Series Statement

Society for the Study of Human Biology symposium series ; 30

Uniform Title

Society for the Study of Human Biology symposium series ; 30.

Subject

• Nutritionally induced diseases > Developing countries > Congresses
• Diet in disease > Congresses
• Developing Countries
• Disease > etiology
• Nutrition Disorders > complications
• Diet in disease
• Nutritionally induced diseases
• Ernährung
• Ernährungskrankheit
• Ernährungsstörung
• Fehlernährung
• Gesundheit
• Mangelernährung
• Kongress
• Dietas E Dietetica
• Developing countries
• Entwicklungsländer

Genre/Form

• Congress
• proceedings (reports)
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• "Organised in collaboration with the International Commission on the Anthropology of Food."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Credits (note)

• Organised in collaboration with the International Commission on the Anthropology of Food (I.U.A.E.S.).

Contents

Mechanisms of adaptation to low energy intakes / J.C Waterlow (19 p.). -- Cultural context of diet, disease and the body / Richard Burghart (19 p.). -- Social adaptation to season and uncertainty in food supply / Igor de Garine (50 p.). -- Food distribution, death and disease in South Asia / Barbara Harriss (17 p.). -- Traditional economies and patterns of nutritional disease / S.S Strickland (31 p.). -- Nutritional vulnerability of the child / P.S Nestel (25 p.). -- Growth and growth charts in the assessment of pre-school nutritional status / Jere D Haas (24 p.). -- Nutrition and illness in the aged / H.M Hodkinson (5 p.). -- Nutritional status and susceptibility to infectious disease / S.J Ulijaszek (18 p.). -- Iodine deficiency disorders / Basil S Hetzel (23 p.). -- Aetiology of kwashiorkor / A.A Jackson (38 p.). -- Impact of chronic undernutrition on physical work capacity and daily energy expenditure / G.B Spurr (38 p.). -- Morbidity, nutritional deficiencies and child development in developing countries / Sally Grantham-McGregor (14 p.).

ISBN

• 0521384540
• 9780521384544

LCCN

90219152

OCLC

• ocm22813212
• 22813212
• SCSB-14654715

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library