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1 online resource |
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Cover -- The Anthropological Demography of Health -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- 0.1 Anthropological demography: a short history -- 0.1.1 Initial denial -- 0.1.2 Anthropological demography: phase one -- 0.1.3 Anthropological demography in phase two -- 0.2 Taking the longer view: health interventions in historical context -- 0.3 Health as an object of contemporary demographic governance -- 0.4 Improving demographic translation |
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0.5 Compositional demography: locating human agency in population and social structures -- 0.6 Reconceptualizing reproductive risk -- 0.7 Concluding note -- References -- Part I: Taking the Longer View: Health Interventions in Historical Context -- Chapter 1: Cultures of contagion and containment?: The geography of smallpox in Britain in the pre-vaccination era -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Isolation -- 1.3 Immunization -- 1.4 Smallpox binaries in international context -- 1.5 Fatalism reconsidered -- 1.6 Community-level responses to smallpox -- 1.7 Conclusion -- References |
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Chapter 2: Medical topography as an instrument of colonial management in French Algeria, 1830-71 -- 2.1 Medical topographies in Algeria -- 2.2 The possession of Algerian territory -- 2.3 Measuring water, air, space, and men -- 2.4 Conclusion: medicine, enlightenment, and politics -- References -- Chapter 3: The prostitute as an urban savage, Paris 1830-1914: French nineteenth-century premises of the anthropological demography of health -- 3.1 Who were the urban savages? -- 3.1.1 Objectification of an out-group: demography and physical anthropology |
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3.1.2 The prostitutes: a caste or a poverty-stricken group? -- 3.1.3 The physical anthropology of 'born-postitutes': a 'different race' -- 3.2 Sexuality and public health -- 3.2.1 Parent-Duchâtelet on the control of syphilis -- 3.2.2 The doctor and his patient -- 3.3 Porous borders in a bourgeois society -- 3.3.1 Changes in prostitution practices -- 3.3.2 The political battle of the abolitionists -- 3.3.3 Neo-réglementarisme -- 3.4 Theoretical stakes -- 3.4.1 Bio-power? -- 3.4.2 Sexuality and prostitution in the colonies -- 3.5 Conclusion: the visible hand of French patriarchy |
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3.5.1 The body of the prostitute and the Republic -- 3.5.2 No embourgeoisement for the lost girls -- References -- Chapter 4: Peer learning and health-related interventions: Family planning and nutrition in Kenya and Uganda, 1950-2019 -- 4.1 Intermediaries in Luo reproductive health -- 4.2 Family planning and group learning in Kikuyuland -- 4.3 From the vertical to the horizontal: state engineering of peer learning in Buganda -- 4.4 Conclusion -- References -- Part II: Health as an Objext of Contemporary Demographic Governance |
| Summary |
The anthropological demography of health, as a field of interdisciplinary population research, has grown from the 1990s, extending to a remarkable range of key human and policy issues, including: genetic disorders; nutrition; mental health; infant, child, and maternal morbidity; malaria; HIV/AIDS; disability and chronic diseases; new reproductive technologies; and population ageing. By observing group formation and change over time, tracking people's networks, and observing variance between what people say and do, anthropological demography goes beyond the characteristically top-down formal methodologies of most mainstream socio-economic demography and population health. This path-breaking volume charts and integrates the growing body of research that combines ethnography with quantitative models and methods in the field of population health. It offers a clear agenda based on important conceptual and methodological advances, and often working in close collaboration with medical and historical research. Approaches to population that are grounded in sustained ethnographic and historical research provide more than substantive knowledge of how cultural and social formations interact with health. They enable understanding of how local institutions and experience of vital events come to be translated into the demographic and health measures on which survey and clinical programmes rely. This, in turn, makes possible critical evaluation of the empirical adequacy of such translation, reflection on0what happens when these models and measures become standardised evaluations of health statuses, and what this implies for governance. The combination of anthropological, demographic, historical, and biological research has gone beyond the initial demographic prioritisation of fertility regulation, to take on an expanded range of key health policy issues, and locate them in the context of the inequalities that so frequently give rise to major health differentials |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 04, 2020) |
| Subject |
Population -- Health aspects.
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Demographic anthropology.
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Demographic anthropology
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Population -- Health aspects
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Petit, Véronique, editor.
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Qureshi, Kaveri, editor.
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Charbit, Yves, editor
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Kreager, Philip, editor
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| ISBN |
9780192607324 |
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0192607324 |
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9780191895111 |
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0191895113 |
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9780192607317 |
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0192607316 |
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