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Categories and Contexts
Throughout its history as a social science, demography has been associated with an exclusively quantitative orientation for studying social problems. As a result, demographers tend …
Network Epidemiology
Over the past two decades, the epidemic of HIV/AIDS has challenged the public health community to fundamentally rethink the framework for preventing infectious diseases. While much …
Demographic Responses to Economic Adjustment in Latin America
The papers in this volume focus on the impact of economic fluctuations on mortality, fertility and labour markets in Latin America during the 1980s. An attempt is made to …
Biomedical and Demographic Determinants of Reproduction
This volume surveys the state of knowledge and research on the determinants of human reproduction. It adopts an inter-disciplinary approach and integrates information from …
Sexual Cultures and Migration in the Era of AIDS
Sexual Cultures and Migration in the Era of AIDS is the first demographic anthropological study of what happens to sexual behaviour and the rules of risk-taking in sexual …
The Decline of Mortality in Europe
This book examines the remarkable decline of mortality in Europe which began in the nineteenth century and continued in an uninterrupted fashion, into the early twentieth century. …
Gender and Family Change in Industrialized Countries
This volume focuses on the relationship between change in the family and change in the roles of women and men on contemporary industrial societies. Of central concern is whether …
Demographic Applications of Event History Analysis
Event history analysis - the study of individual life histories - has developed rapidly over the past few years. This book illustrates the use of the new techniques at the frontier …
Urbanization in Large Developing Countries
Urbanization is a key process in developing countries. Within the next decade over 50 per cent of the world's population will inhabit urban areas and the majority of this growth is …
The Methods and Uses of Anthropological Demography
This volume takes stock of the current status of the comparatively new discipline of `Anthropological Demography', and discusses its major methods, its main strengths, and its …
Dynamics of Values in Fertility Change
The global transformation in the number of children women bear has been one of the most remarkable changes in social behaviour in the twentieth century. The search for explanations …
Differential Mortality
There are strongly pronounced differentials between survival chances for different social classes in less developed countries. This book gives insight into the variety of …