The Biology of Human Starvation: Volume II (Volume 2) - Softcover

Keys, Ancel; Brozek, Josef; Henschel, Austin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0816672334 ISBN 13: 9780816672332

Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 1950

Synopsis

The Biology of Human Starvation was first published in 1950. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

With great areas of the world battling the persistent and basic problem of hunger, this work constitutes a major contribution to needed scientific knowledge. The publication is a definitive treatise on the morphology, biochemistry, physcology, psychology, and medical aspects of calorie undernutrition, cachexia, starvation, and rehabilitation in man. 

Presented critically and systematically are the fact and theory from the world literature, including the evidence from World War II and the finding of the Minnesota Starvation Experiment (1944*1946). Pertinent experiments and field and clinical observations to 1949 are covered. 

The extensive original research involved was conducted at the University of Minnesota Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene, which Dr. Keys heads. The authors, all of the laboratory staff, were assisted in preparation of the work by Ernst Simonson, Samuel Wells and Angie Sturgeon Skinner.

About this title

About the Author

Dr. Ancel Keys was head of the University of Minnesota Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene, while Josef Brozek, Austin Henschel, Olaf Mickelson, and Henry Longstreet Taylor were all laboratory staff in the same department.

Edition details

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 1950
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0816672334
• ISBN 13: 9780816672332
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 763