Hunger disease

Titel: Hunger disease : studies by the Jewish physicians in the Warsaw Ghetto / ed. by Myron Winick. Translated from the Polish by Martha Osnos
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Veröffentlicht: New York ˜[u.a.]œ : Wiley, 1979
Umfang: 261 S. : Ill., graph. Darst.
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
Schriftenreihe/
mehrbändiges Werk:
Current concepts in nutrition ; 7
RVK-Notation:
ISBN: 0471050032
Lokale Klassifikation: 36 8 W 1431 ; 36 3 F ; 36 7 N ; 36 16 ; 1 16

A translation from the Polish of a manuscript smuggled out of the Warsaw Ghetto that details studies performed by resident Jewish physicians on patients suffering from starvation. Topics include: clinical changes in adults and children, metabolic adaptations, circulatory changes, changes in the eye and in vision, changes in the blood and bone marrow, and pathologic anatomy.