"For both its content and the research it may stimulate, this volume is of value to a wide audience of medical anthropologists for their professional research and teaching." Barry Bogin, Medical Anthropology Quarterly

• 1. Measurement of working capacity in populations; 2. Functional consequences of malnutrition; 3. Growth stature and muscular efficiency; 4. Ethnic and socio-cultural differences in working capacity; 5. Energy expenditure and endemic disease; 6. Research models in tropical ecosystems.

"For both its content and the research it may stimulate, this volume is of value to a wide audience of medical anthropologists for their professional research and teaching." Barry Bogin, Medical Anthropology Quarterly

• 1. Measurement of working capacity in populations; 2. Functional consequences of malnutrition; 3. Growth stature and muscular efficiency; 4. Ethnic and socio-cultural differences in working capacity; 5. Energy expenditure and endemic disease; 6. Research models in tropical ecosystems.

"For both its content and the research it may stimulate, this volume is of value to a wide audience of medical anthropologists for their professional research and teaching." Barry Bogin, Medical Anthropology Quarterly

• 1. Measurement of working capacity in populations; 2. Functional consequences of malnutrition; 3. Growth stature and muscular efficiency; 4. Ethnic and socio-cultural differences in working capacity; 5. Energy expenditure and endemic disease; 6. Research models in tropical ecosystems.