Perspectives in Human Growth, Development and Maturation

By: Parasmani Dasgupta (Editor), Roland Hauspie (Editor)

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One morning in 1969, out of the blue, I received a letter which both distressed and astonished me. It was from a Prof. S. R. Das in Calcutta, who requested me to accept, for eventual analysis, a mountain of anthropometric data he had accumulated, as he was ill and did not expect to survive to analyse it himself. The data provided the astonishment; twenty-two anthropometric characters recorded every six months or a year, over a period of 14 years, in a mixed longitudinal study of some 560 children, aged six months to twenty years. Most were in families with siblings also in the study, and every child was measured every time by S. R. Das himself. The archive was unique, combining the personal anthropometry of R. H. Whitehouse in the Harpenden Growth Study and the family approach of the Fels Growth Study. This was a study of which neither I, nor anyone of my acquaintance, had heard. Even in India, Prof. Das' work was scarcely known. It turned out Das was a scholarly man, quiet and unassuming, absolutely committed to his Sarsuna-Barisha Growth Study,just the obverse of the professional showman. Clearly this was not a request I could refuse, although I already had in hand enough projects to occupy Siva himself.

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This volume covers the whole of the research area in human growth and development. Topics include: the history of the study of human growth, the modeling of individual growth curves, the construction of population growth reference curves, growth as a measure of population well-being, secular trend, and the relation between mental and physical development. The book is for students, researchers and practitioners in the field of anthropology, human biology, auxology, human nutrition, education, public health and paediatrics.

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List of contributors	p. ix
Foreword	p. xiii
Editors note	p. xv
Methodological Aspects of Growth Studies	p. 1
The Measurement of Human Growth: A Historical Review	p. 3
Individual Physical Growth Models and Biological Parameters of Japanese	p. 17
Smoothing Centile Curves of Height of Basque Boys and Girls by the Application of the LMS-Method	p. 33
A New International Growth Reference for Young Children	p. 45
Fels and Tanner-Whitehouse Skeletal Ages of School Children 7-13 Years in Oaxaca, Mexico	p. 55
Assessment of Childhood and Adolescents Body Composition: A Practical Guide	p. 67
Genetic and Environmental Factors	p. 77
Genetics of Complex Traits with Particular Attention to Fat Patterning	p. 79
Subcutaeneous Adipose Tissue Distribution in 7- to 16-Year Old Boys of Calcutta in relation to socio-economic level	p. 91
Dentofacial Morphology, Growth and Genetics: A Study of Australian Aborigines	p. 109
Riddles in Human Development Patterns: A Few Family Case Study	p. 123
Nutrition in Venezuela at the End of the Millennium	p. 129
Thoughts on Secular Trends in Growth and Development	p. 137
Secular Trends and Longterm Serial Growth Studies	p. 147
Secular Trends in Body Height - Indicator of General Improvement in Living Conditions or of a Change in Specific Factors?	p. 159
Patterns of Growth and Scholastic Performance - A Case Study of the Associated Factors	p. 169
Mental Ability and Cognitive Thinking in Relation to Sex, Pubertal Stage and Socio-Economic Background	p. 179
Population Differences in Growth	p. 203
How Genetic Are Human Body Proportions?	p. 205
The Sarsuna-Barisha Longitudinal Growth Study: Dynamics of Growth	p. 223
Linear Components of Growth Among Rural Indian Children	p. 237
Growth Stunting among Children, Aged Birth to 5 Years, in Peri-Urban Kathmandu, Nepal	p. 251
Ethnic and Sex Differences in the Skelic Index among Fijian and Samoan Children	p. 269
Skeletal Maturity in Children of Mixed American and Japanese Parentage as Assessed by the TW2-Method	p. 281
Biological Aspects of Growth	p. 299
Somatotypes of Budapest Children	p. 301
Differential Rate of Growth of the Human Body Parts	p. 313
Short-term Growth	p. 321
Relations between Head Growth and Psychomotor Development in Low-Birth-Weight Children	p. 333
Growth in Length and Weight of Thalassemic Children in West Bengal, India: A Mixed-Longitudinal Study	p. 341
Appendices	p. 351
Life sketch of Sudhir Ranjan Das	p. 353
List of publications of Sudhir Ranjan Das	p. 357
Index	p. 363
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