Gandhi in the Tropics: Climate, Disease and Medicine

Medicine in the Tropics

Fever in a child in the tropics fills a mother with fear; so often she has seen it the herald of death, or of fits, or of slow, lingering illness and handicap. She knows that fever replaces health and happiness in her child by fretfulness, misery, burning heat, and screaming (partly no doubt the result of throbbing headache). Her fear is justified. Mortality and morbidity from infection in chil...

Medicine and Health in the Tropics

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The Practice of Medicine in the Tropics

Current Practice MEDICINE IN THE TROPICS

Of the many causes of ill-health among children of the tropics malnutrition is undoubtedly the most important. Apart from its direct effects on health, malnutrition also exerts an indirect effect by diminishing resistance to infecious diseases. The infant and child mortality rates in tropical countries are high. In India, according to the latest census figures, while infants and children under ...

Climate Science in the Tropics: Waves, Vortices, and PDEs

Clouds in the tropics can organize the circulation on planetary scales and profoundly impact long range seasonal forecasting and climate on the entire globe, yet contemporary operational computer models are often deficient in representing these phenomena. On the other hand, contemporary observations reveal remarkably complex coherent waves and vortices in the tropics interacting across a bewild...