Man, Mountain and Medicine-III: Digital Edition 2014

Man, Mountain and Medicine Volume III,2014
Pakistan is located on the welding scenario of the Asian mountain mass. With the merging of the Himalaya, Karakoram and Hindukush, it truly forms the Roof of the World. Geo-strategically the researchers in region have an obligatory melting pot for mountain medicine and high altitude medical studies.
The First Volume of the pioneer monograph Man, Mountain and Medicine, with a Foreword by Prof. Peter Harris, London. It has chapters on the Human Geography, Anthropology, Cardiovascular and Renal aspects of the highlanders in the Karakoram and Pamirs (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IAZQM2C).
The Second Volume, with a Foreword by Prof.Carlos Monge,Lima,Peru, has chapters on the Highlands of Pakistan, Health of the Highlanders, and Acute and Chronic Mountain Sickness (Hindukush, Karakoram, Pamir and Tien Shan, Himalaya and Tibetan Plateau). (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ILDJW0C).
This Third Volume, includes mountain medicine aspects on the Andes (Peru and Bolivia), Caucacus (Ukraine), Pamir and Tien Shan (Kyrghyzstan), Himalaya and Tibetan Plateau (China) and Alps (Switzerland,Italy). It has a Foreword by Prof.Tianyi Wu, Xining,Qinghai,China.
The series of the Man, Mountain and Medicine will serve as a benchmark in the region, attract international collaboration in the field of mountain medicine.
Authors and Editors
Muhammad Ilyas F.R.C.P., F.A.C.C. Cardiologist, Muhammadi Hospital, International Medical Research Centre, Hayatabad, Peshawar, Pakistan
Farakh A. Khan D.U. (Vienna), F R C.S., Professor of Urology, Postgraduate Medical Institute,
Lahore General Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan
Published by Pakistan Heart Foundation, Tatara Avenue, Hayatabad, Peshawar, Pakistan
E-mail: ilyaseen@pakheart.org website: www.pakheart.org Cellular:00923339107123