Medicine

This book is an extraordinary account of nine years of intimate association with a group of 45 Mayan children in a small Guatemalan highland village,” writes Nevin S. Scrimshaw, Institute Professor at MIT and one of the world’s authorities on the effects of nutrition on the development of children. “It is unlike any other published study in its almost daily observations of microbiological and general health status in the direct response to the cultural and environmental events to which each child develops under conditions of under-privilege.”