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During evolution, mankind has gone through alternating periods of famine/abundances, determined by seasons and environmental conditions changes, with consequent modifications in the metabolism efficiency. Adaptability and adjustment to these changes have helped us to survive as a species. Currently, in developed countries radical diet fluctuations are extremely rare, and, in this sense, human metabolism is largely "unchallenged". It is hard to assess whether or not this represents a favorable aspect.
Lives at Risk describes the introduction of Western medicine into Egypt. The two major innovations undertaken by Muhammad Ali in the mid-nineteenth century were a Western-style school of medicine and an international Quarantine Board. The ways in which these institutions succeeded and failed will greatly interest historians of medicine and of modern Egypt. And because the author relates her narrative to twentieth-century health issues in developing countries, Lives at Risk will also interest medical and social anthropologists. The presence of the quarantine establishment and the medical school in Egypt resulted in a rudimentary public health service. Paramedical personnel were trained to pro...