Isolation, migration and health.

These are the proceedings of a symposium of the Society for the Study of Human Biology held in Fukui Japan July 30-31 1990. The focus of the 22 papers included is on the biological effects of the two processes of isolation and migration in order "to show how the situations to which they give rise may be used to elucidate a variety of biological problems ranging from evolutionary change to disease etiology. This object is achieved by a number of examples the majority of which have been studied by Asian investigators and are less widely known than the classic Western studies of say the Amish Yanomama or the Aland islanders....Besides documenting the results the chapters illustrate the different methods employed in such studies." (EXCERPT)