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Human growth and development /

Aims to serve as a resource on the human growth stages, environmental effects, and the research methods scientists should use. This text contains both biological and bio-medical approaches to human development and chapters on research methods of growth data collection. It is intended for instructors...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cameron, Noël
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York : Academic Press, ©2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Human growth curve, canalization, and catch-up growth / Noël Cameron
  • Growth in infancy and childhood : a pediatric approach / Horacio Lejarraga
  • Adolescence : somatic growth and sex differences / Roland C. Hauspie
  • Puberty / Peter T. Ellison
  • Endocrinology of growth / Peter C. Hindmarsh
  • The genetic epidemiology of growth and development / Bradford Towne, Ellen W. Demerath, and Stefan A. Czerwinski
  • Nutrition and growth / Nicholas G. Norgan
  • Environmental effects on growth / Lawrence M. Schell and Kristen L. Knutsen
  • Social and economic influences on growth and secular trends / Francis E. Johnston
  • Endocrine disorders of growth / John S. Parks
  • Genetically determined growth disorders / Michael A. Preece
  • Saltation and stasis / Michelle Lampl
  • Body composition during growth and development / Babette Zemel
  • The evolution of human growth / Barry Bogin
  • Exercise and growth : physical activity as a factor in growth and maturation / Robert M. Malina
  • The assessment of human growth / William Cameron Chumlea and Shumei Sun Guo
  • Assessment of maturation / Noël Cameron
  • Growth references and standards / Tim J. Cole.