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Ageing Without Children
Rapid fertility declines and improved longevity are now shifting the overall balance of population towards older ages in many parts of the world. Within this growing population …
Modern Babylon?
Child prostitution became one of the key concerns of the international community in the 1990s. World congresses were held, international and national laws were changed and …
Reproductive Agency, Medicine and the State
Recent years have seen many changes in human reproduction resulting from state and medical interventions in childbearing processes. Based on empirical work in a variety of …
Nameless Relations
Based on the author's fieldwork at assisted conception clinics in England in the mid-1990s, this is the first ethnographic study of the new procreative practices of anonymous ova …
Managing Reproductive Life
Throughout history human societies have sought to manage their reproductive lives to make them fit in with their social, economic and biological conditions. But the different …
A New Look At Thai Aids
Following the detection of the first HIV infections in the early 1980s, by the 1990s Thailand was routinely depicted as having the world’s fastest moving HIV/AIDS epidemic. …
Population, Reproduction and Fertility in Melanesia
Human biological fertility was considered a important issue to anthropologists and colonial administrators in the first part of the 20th century, as a dramatic decline in …
Breast Feeding and Sexuality
Whereas in western countries breastfeeding is an uncontroversial, purely personal issue, in most parts of the world mother and baby form part of a network of interpersonal …