Adapting to Undernourishment: The Biological Evidence and Its Implications

(with Partha Dasgupta), in J. Drèze and A.K. Sen (eds.), The Political Economy of Hunger, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1991.

Summary. We critically survey the clinical literature on the possibility of adaptation to a state of undernutrition, as proposed by P. V. Sukhatme and others.