Chapters in books

I have advised on and checked many books. I have helped, for example, with the Travel with Kids Footprint guide, Gutsy Women from Travelers Tales, Have Toddler Will Travel, and the new Access Africa - Safaris for People with Limited Mobility Bradt Travel Guide.

I have also written chapters in others including:
The Manual of Childhood Infections (a handbook to be published in April 2011 by Oxford University Press and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health),  
Health Information for Overseas Travel: guidelines for illness prevention in travellers from the UK – the anxiously awaited new version of the ‘yellow book’ from the Department of Health / NaTHNaC and aimed at health professionals. Publication of this book is now expected in March 2010 and the text will become available on the web later.
Oxford Handbook of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine (published jointly through the Royal Geographical Society 2008),
Madagascar: the Bradt Travel Guide and at least 25 other Bradt guides
Amazon Cadogan Guide
Tanzania & Zanzibar Cadogan Guide

Bite prevention key in malaria. 
Independent Nurse 21 Mar 2005 pp 16-17

Malaria prophylaxis.
Independent Nurse 1 Mar 2005

Safe adventures with children.
British Travel Health Assoc. Journal 2004 5 17-19

Advice for new mothers.
Archives of Disease in Childhood 2004 89 (10) 983; a snippet that takes a swipe at doctors who don’t or can’t listen to vulnerable new mothers.
See www.adc.bmj.com/cgi/reprint for a downloadable PDF file

The pregnant traveller.
British Travel Health Assoc. Journal 2002 pp 3-6

Sick of Going Abroad.
The New Civil Engineer 24th Oct 2002

Advising pregnant women about travelling overseas.
Pulse 27th May 2002, pp 50-4

How to repel the little biters.
Chemist & Druggist April 28 2001 pp 13-14

Persistent lymphadenopathy after tick bites in Nepal.
British Travel Health Association Journal 2001 II pp 56-8

Advising travelling families.
Travel Medicine International 2000 18 (3) 82-6

Health promotion in travellers.
Update 18th May 2000 pp 721-5

From the other side: anxieties and misconceptions amongst expatriates in Nepal.
Paper written with Matthew Ellis and Rosie Denmark and presented at the first British Travel Health Association Scientific Conference 20th February 1999

Management of Emergencies in Family Planning Services in Nepal: a reference manual.
JHPIEGO Baltimore/HM Government of Nepal, 1999; 111pp

Illness in expatriate families in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Travel Medicine International 1997 15 150-155

Hazards of trekking in Nepal. 
Travel Medicine International 1997 15 82-87

Preventing Disease: a manual of ways to improve health in Nepali villages.
NEWAH/WaterAid 1996 99pp; also adapted for use in Bangladesh in 1997 and South India in 1998.

Treating anaemia. 
Child Health Dialogue 1996 3&4 p2; a political piece about the way inappropriately expensive pharmaceuticals are marketed in Pakistan

Toward more effective health education in AusAID projects: an example from Lombok, Indonesia. in Health and development in south east Asia pp.191-204, eds. Paul Cohen and John Purcal; Australian Development Studies Network (Canberra) 1995

Is head flattening in infancy a good thing?
Archives of Disease in Childhood 1994 70 72; a snippet about the effect of swaddling on infant skull shape in Pakistan

Sustainable use of soap. 
Dialogue on Diarrhoea (quarterly international health education newsletter with a circulation of 300,000 in 10 languages) 54 September-November 1993; available on-line at www.rehydrate.org

Sustained improvements in hygiene behaviour amongst village women in Lombok, Indonesia.
Transactions of the Royal Society Tropical Medicine & Hygiene 1993 87 615-616; a pleasing piece of follow up work that suggested that our health education programme still had significant impact two years on; the simplicity of the message was one reason for the success, the other was the ‘cascading’ of information from mother to mother; see the Dialogue on Diarrhoea write-up above.

Hand-washing reduces diarrhoea episodes: a study in Lombok, Indonesia.
Transactions of the Royal Society Tropical Medicine & Hygiene 1991 85 819-821; showed how carefully researched and targeted health education can have a significant impact and improve the lives of the rural poor

Perforated duodenal ulcer: an unusual complication of gastroenteritis.
Archives of Disease in Childhood 1991 65 990-991; describes one unexpected outcome of physical stress in a child

An unusual cause of cyanosis. 
Journal Paediatrics & Child Health 1991 27 (1) 65-66

Heights and weights of Children in Ladakh, N. India.
Journal of Tropical Pediatrics 1990 36 271-272; reporting a study of parasite burdens in children living in remote mountain villages

Riboflavin deficiency in late pregnancy: a problem in South Asia too?  
Transactions of the Royal Society Tropical Medicine & Hygiene 1988 82 656

Wells worms and water in western Madagascar.
Journal of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene 1988 91 255-264; a study of the interrelationship of bilharzia, nutritional status and water use in school children from an irrigated and a non-irrigated area of rural western Madagascar which involved treating the children for schistosomiasis and other worms

Malaria in cave-roosting Peruvian bats.
Cave Science 1988 15 (2) 85

A study of Bilharzia and intestinal worms in children from Morondava, western Madagascar.
Archives Institut Pasteur de Madagascar 1987 52 105-116

The Scorpion Story.
British Medical Journal 1987 295 1642-4; an account of being stung and how the non-medics of the expedition thought they were losing their doctor

Hair analysis and the assessment of marginal malnutrition in children from Little Tibet.
Transactions of the Royal Society Tropical Medicine & Hygiene 1986 80 168-9

Can Encephalitozoon cuniculi cross the placenta?
Research in Veterinary Science 1986 40 138

Diagnosis of encephalitozoonosis in man by serological tests.
British Medical Journal 1984 288 1164

The biology of Encephalitozoon cuniculi.
Medical Science 1979 57 84-101; a comprehensive literature review of this still little-understood obligate intracellular microsporidian parasite

Encephalitozoon cuniculi in wild European rabbits and a fox.
Research in Veterinary Science 1979 26 114

Dr Tony White ran an important study on the effects of altitude on the ability to think. He ran this during a Southampton University expedition to the Peruvian Andes that I led. He showed how much altitude compromises the ability to make rational choices and take decisions but how acetazolamide is protective.
White, A.J. Cognitive impairment of AMS and acetazolamide.
Aviation, Space & Environmental Medicine. 1984 5 598-603.
Tony is sadly missed: he was killed by a car while cycling to work.

Past and Present Lemur Fauna at Ankarana, N. Madagascar.
Primate Conservation 1995 16 47-52

Troglobius coprophagus, a new genus and species of cave collembolan from Madagascar with notes on its ecology.
International Journal of Speleology 1990 19 67-73

Ecology and conservation of the Crowned Lemur at Ankarana, Madagascar with notes on Sanford's Lemur, other sympatrics and subfossil lemurs.
Folia primatologica 1989 52 1-26

A survey and management proposals for a tropical deciduous forest reserve at Ankarana in northern Madagascar.
Biological Conservation 1989 47 297-313 (senior author was SV Fowler)

Ankarana – rediscovered nature reserve in northern Madagascar.
Oryx 1988 22 163-171

The Crocodile Caves of Ankarana: expedition to northern Madagascar, 1986.
Cave Science: Transactions of the British Cave Research Association 1987 14 (3) 107-119

Population ecology of Ring-tailed Lemur and White Sifaka in Madagascar.
Folia primatologica 1986 47 39-48

Ecology of the Crocodile Caves of Madagascar.
Cave Science: Transactions of the British Cave Research Association 1985 12 (4) 135-138

A review of world Troglopedetini (Insecta, Collembola) including an identification table and descriptions of new species.
Cave Science: Transactions of the British Cave Research Association 1982 9 (3) 210-226 describes cave-dwelling insect species that I discovered in Nepal and Madagascar and were new to science

Cave ecology in the Himalaya.
Studies in Speleology 1977 3 (2) 66-9

Caves: changing ecosystems?
Studies in Speleology 1977 3 (1) 34-38; a discussion of the influences man can have on delicate and specialised cave-adapted animals

Cavers and Cave Fauna.
British Cave Research Association Bulletin 1976 no.11; pp 8-9

Himalaya Underground: the 1976 speleological expedition
This six-month overland expedition to Chitral, Dehra Dun and Nepal involved Gill Durrant, Christopher Smart, John Turner (leader) and Jane M Wilson (report editor)

Southampton University Madagascar Expedition 1981
Andre Adamson led a team of undergraduates: Mike Boase, Catherine J Howarth, Liz Sparke, Jane M Wilson and Mary E Wilson; we spent nearly three months researching lemur ecology, searching for caves to explore and beginning the first comprehensive zoological work in the Ankarana Reserve.

Perú 82: Southampton University Exploration Society Peru Expedition
This was a two-month study in the high Andes and the tropical jungle with a big team: Alison Denham, Steve Gontarek, Nicki Halliday, Dave Kay, Dermot Martin, Mandy Patton, Julian Payne, Ian Stronge, the late Tony (AJ) White, Jane Wilson (leader) and Mary Wilson (Click here for the Expedition Report - File size 9MB, 104 pages)
Read the press coverage of the Andean phase of the expedition contributed by Southampton journalist Dermot Martin in the Southern Evening Echo.
(Article 1 | Article 2)

The Crocodile Caves of Ankarana expedition 1986
Our core team from the UK comprised Phil Chapman (joint-leader), Dave Checkley, Dave Clarke, Sally Crook, Anne Denning, Ben Gaskell, Simon Howarth, Maggie Hutchings, Mick McHale, Sheila Hurd, Simon Fowler, Paul Stewart, Richard Walters and Jane Wilson (joint-leader). Malagasy collaborators were Jean Radofilao, Jean-Elie Randriamasy, Guy-Suzon Ramangason, R Ralaiarson-Raharizelina and Martine Randriamanantena. Some of us spent a full six months in Madagascar researching various health and conservation issues.