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...John E. Brush; Miriam K. Brush Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969 Land, Livestock and Human Nutrition in India . By R. O. Whyte . New York : Frederick A. Praeger , xvi , 309 pp. Illustrations, Appendices, Index, $16.50. Grasslands of the Monsoon . By R. O...

...Kathryn Robinson Maternal and Child Nutrition in Madura, Indonesia . Edited by J. A. Kusin and Sri Kardjati . Amsterdam : Royal Tropical Institute , 1994 . 296 pp. Dfl. 35.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 902 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Ricardo...

...Penelope Van Esterik Wives and Midwives: Childbirth and Nutrition in Rural Malaysia . By Carol Laderman . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1984 . xiii, 267 pp. Figures, Tables, Illustrations, Appendixes, Notes, Bibliography. $32.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Yunxiang Yan Abstract Food-safety problems constitute a new, urgent, and multifaceted challenge to Chinese people, society, and the state, involving a number of social, political, and ethical issues beyond those of food safety, nutrition, and health. In light of Ulrich Beck's theory of risk society...

... Food, Health, and Survival in India and Developing Countries. By STUART GILLESPIE and G E R A L D I N E M C N E I L L . Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1992. xiii, 216 pp. $24.00. This book is about what most people consider "nutrition," but it deftly minimizes use of this word. Analyses focus mostly...

... into three parts. Part 1, “Nutritional Government” (chapters 1 and 2), addresses the significance of nutrition in maintaining health in the context of China's modernization and nation-building. According to Krusche, the government disseminated knowledge about nutrition to build an awareness of the function...

... by height and weight, chest girth and body mass for school children in Japan for the years between 1901 and 1985. It seeks to show that secular gains in anthropometric population quality were the result of improvements in net nutritional intake. Net nutritional intake itself was based upon better diets...

... . “ On the Relationship between Landholding and Fertility. ” Population Studies 39 , no. 1 : 5 – 15 . Cowan Betty , and Dhanoa Jasbir . 1983 . “The Prevention of Toddler Malnutrition by Home-based Nutrition Education.” In Nutrition in the Community: A Critical Look at Nutrition Policy, Planning...

..., 1,143 sanitary inspectors, 124 vaccinators, 835 nurses, and 2,146 other health personnel. In 1938 the medical personnel numbered 680. The Division of Administration included in addition to administrative services Sections of Public Health Education, Nutrition, and Nursing, the Board of Food Inspection...

... the result of improvements in net nutritional intake. Net nutritional intake itself was based upon better diets, higher standards of public health, more years of education and fewer years of work for young people, technological changes, and a shift of population away from the mud in a rice paddy...

... tradition that was worth keeping. The national Nutrition Project played a significant role in the government's campaign to build a population of healthy bodies. In short, it was the cornerstone of the nation-building scheme. Under the nutrition principle, the government urged the Thai people to eat...

... covers a wide range of subjects from accounts of the current food and agricultural situation in the countries represented, to the status of their development plans. It recites needs and expresses hopes for production, trade, food consumption, nutrition, agriculture, fisheries, forestry, outside financial...

... mountain range of Northern Luzon), who participate in international health classes, nutrition programs, and Christian evangelical medical clinics. Kwiatkowski argues that these programs (e.g., the Peace Corps/Philippine government Rural Health Units, Catholic Relief Services, UNICEF/Philippine government...

... Stevan . Berkeley : University of California Press . Livi-Bacci Massimo. 1985 . “The Nutrition-Mortality Link in Past Times: A Comment.” In Hunger and History , edited by Rotberg Robert I. and Rabb Theodore K. . Cambridge : Cambridge University . Livi-Bacci Massimo. 1991...

... to follow rather than to precede an improvement in nutrition, and can therefore probably not be directly and immediately approached. Even at the highest possible rate of increase in capacity for gross foodproduction by agricultural improvement, it is likely that the expected growth of population...

... be required to fully verify that. Hopefully, Ricardo Jose's book will encourage similar efforts by other Filipinists and help bring military history the stature within Philippine studies that it rightly deserves. JAMES C. BIEDZYNSKI Raritan Valley Community College Maternal and Child Nutrition in Madura...

... of scientific knowledge. Manderson situates medical science, nutrition, and the culture of health care within the colonial enterprise and reflects on the integral relation of these attitudes and bodies of knowledge to the other colonial agendas of conquest, control, and profit. Her story is a dismal one. Rarely...

... similar comment on the rest of the book. A few points, however, must be made. The papers on nutrition, disease, and the recent development of the Public Health Service, register the tragically BOOK REVIEWS 57 inflated costs of medical and food supplies, and recount the constructive efforts of Chinese...

... MANSINGH The American University Grasslands of the Monsoon. BY R. O. WHYTE. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1968. 325 pp. Tables, Illustrations, Appendices, Index. $9.50. Land, Livestock and Human Nutrition in India. By R. O. WHYTE. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, xvi, 309 pp. Illustrations, Appendices...

... ; and Watkins Susan . 1981 . “ The Nutrition Fertility Link: An Evaluation of the Evidence .” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 11 , 3 : 425 –41. Mihelich Mira A. 1979 . “Polders and Politics of Land Reclamation in Southeast China during the Northern Sung (960–1126).” Ph.D. dissertation...