2V. MAN, MOUNTAIN AND MEDICINE: SECOND VOLUME (MAN,MOUNTAIN AND MEDICINE)

MAN, MOUNTAIN AND MEDICINE Volume II. First Kindle Edition 2014
Muhammad Ilyas Cardiologist, Muhammadi Hospital, International Medical Research Centre, Hayatabad, Peshawar, Pakistan
Farakh A. Khan Professor of Urology, Postgraduate Medical Institute,
Lahore General Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan

Foreword by Prof. Carlo C. Monge, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru:
“The book represents considerable effort of a large number of international collaborators to cover subjects from Human geography and Anthropology to Medical Pathology and Public Health of the high-altitude populations and High Altitude Physiology from Pakistan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Japan, U.K. and India.”

With the merging of the Himalaya, Karakoram and Hindukush, Pakistan is located on the welding scenario of the Asian mountain. Geo-strategically it is the melting pot for high altitude research.

The First Volume of this pioneer monograph Man, Mountain and Medicine was published under Kindle Direct Publishing on February 7,2014 (ASIN:BOOIAZQM2C). This Second Volume was first authored on Macromedia Authorware® during 2002. This digital edition contains Chapters on the Highlands of Pakistan (Chitral and Northern Areas, Health of the Highlanders (Pakistan, Kyrghyzstan and China) and Acute and Chronic Mountain Sickness (Pakistan, Japan and China). It has 215 pages, 110 photographs and illustrations and 73 tables.

The Second Volume is a prelude to its Third Volume (International Edition), which is on the anvil,
with Chapters from the leading researchers from China, Kyrghyzstan, Peru, Ukraine, and papers from India, Japan, USA, U.K., Chile, Bolivia, Italy, France, and Portugal.

Published by Pakistan Heart Foundation, Tatara Avenue, Hayatabad, Peshawar, Pakistan
E-mail: ilyaseen@pakheart.org website: www.pakheart.org Cellular:00923339107123