Human Growth

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Cellular Growth: Brain, Liver, Muscle, and Lung

   • Jo Anne Brasel, Rhoda K. Gruen

   Pages 3-19

3. Cellular Growth: Adipose Tissue

   • C. G. D. Brook

   Pages 21-33

4. The Methods of Auxological Anthropometry

   • Noël Cameron

   Pages 35-90

5. Somatic Growth of the Infant and Preschool Child

   • Francis E. Johnston

   Pages 91-116

6. Body Composition and Energy Needs during Growth

   • Malcolm A. Holliday

   Pages 117-139

7. Puberty

   • W. A. Marshall

   Pages 141-181

8. Prepubertal and Pubertal Endocrinology

   • Jeremy S. D. Winter

   Pages 183-213

9. The Central Nervous System and the Onset of Puberty

   • Melvin M. Grumbach

   Pages 215-238

10. Body Composition in Adolescence

    • Gilbert B. Forbes

    Pages 239-272

11. Growth of Muscle Tissue and Muscle Mass

    • Robert M. Malina

    Pages 273-294

12. Adipose Tissue Development in Man

    • Jerome L. Knittle

    Pages 295-315

13. Bone Growth and Maturation

    • Alex F. Roche

    Pages 317-355

14. The Fundamentals of Cranial and Facial Growth

    • Harry Israel III

    Pages 357-380

15. Skull, Jaw, and Teeth Growth Patterns

    • Patrick G. Sullivan

    Pages 381-412

16. Dentition

    • Arto Demirjian

    Pages 413-444

17. Secular Growth Changes

    • J. C. van Wieringen

    Pages 445-473

18. The Influence of Exercise, Physical Activity, and Athletic Performance on the Dynamics of Human Growth

    • Donald A. Bailey, Robert M. Malina, Roy L. Rasmussen

    Pages 475-505

19. The Low-Birth-Weight Infant

    • Frederick C. Battaglia, Michael A. Simmons

    Pages 507-555

20. Growth Dynamics of Low-Birth-Weight Infants with Emphasis on the Perinatal Period

    • Ingeborg Brandt

    Pages 557-617

Growth, as we conceive it, is the study of changeinan organism not yet mature. Differential growth creates form: external form through growth rates which vary from one part of the body to another and one tissue to another; and internal form through the series of time-entrained events which build up in each cell the special­ ized complexity of its particular function. We make no distinction, then, between growth and development, and if we have not included accounts of differentiation it is simply because we had to draw a quite arbitrary line somewhere. lt is only rather recently that those involved in pediatrics and child health have come to realize that growth is the basic science peculiar to their art. It is a science which uses and incorporates the traditional disciplines of anatomy, physiology, biophysics, biochemistry, and biology. It is indeed a part of biology, and the study of human growth is a part of the curriculum of the rejuvenated science of Human Biology. What growth is not is a series of chärts of height and weight. Growth standards are useful and necessary, and their construction is by no means void of intellectual challenge. They are a basic instrument in pediatric epidemiology. But they do not appear in this book, any more than clinical accounts of growth disorders. This appears to be the first large handbook-in three volumes-devoted to Human Growth.

• anatomy
• biology
• cell
• child
• complexity
• development
• endocrinology
• epidemiology
• growth
• maturation
• pediatrics
• physics
• physiology
• puberty
• science

• The Fels Research Institute, Wright State University School of Medicine, Yellow Springs, USA

  Frank Falkner

• Institute of Child Health, London, England

  J. M. Tanner

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