On Reproduction And Population

Author : Stanley Ulijaszek
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857455581

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Population, Reproduction and Fertility in Melanesia by Stanley Ulijaszek Pdf

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 population was observed in many regions. However, the total demise of Melanesian populations predicted by some never happened; on the contrary, a rapid population increase took place for the second part of the 20th century. This volume explores relationships between human fertility and reproduction, subsistence systems, the symbolic use of ideas of fertility and reproduction in linking landscape to individuals and populations, in Melanesian societies, past and present. It thus offers an important contribution to our understanding of the implications of social and economic change for reproduction and fertility in the broadest sense.

Author : Deborah R. McFarlane
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781449685218

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Global Population and Reproductive Health by Deborah R. McFarlane Pdf

The world population surpassed the seven billion mark in 2011, yet many women and couples still lack access to reproductive health services. These facts have profound implications for maternal and child health, environmental quality, and food security. Global Population and Reproductive Health provides an introduction to an important and timely public health topic. The text is unique in that it explores the inextricable link between population and reproductive health – a connection that is often overlooked – as well as their impact on global and local environmental issues. Students will come away with a clear understanding of the relationships among all these issues, and the vital need for integrated policies and international cooperation. Contents Include: 1. Overview 2. Measures and Theories 3. Health 4. Related Issues 5. Policies

Author : Rickie Solinger,Mie Nakachi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199311088

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Reproductive States by Rickie Solinger,Mie Nakachi Pdf

This is a collection of case studies that explore when and how half of the twenty most populous countries in the world invented and implemented population policies. It presents analyses of reproductive politics in Brazil, China, Egypt, Germany, India, Iran, Japan, Nigeria, the USSR/Russia, and the United States. The essays focus on the official, organized efforts that states pursued to facilitate state decisions about how many people, and which people, would be born within their borders.

Author : Paige Whaley Eager
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351933292

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Global Population Policy by Paige Whaley Eager Pdf

The general assumption throughout history has been that a growing population is beneficial for societies. By the mid-1960s, however, the United States and other developed countries became convinced that population control was an absolute necessity, especially in the developing world. This absorbing study explains why population control is no longer the focus of global population policy and why reproductive rights and health have become the major focus. The book highlights the role that the US and other developed countries play in affecting global population policy, looking in particular at the stance of the George W. Bush administration since taking office. It also studies the influence of the UN as an international forum and explores how civil society questioned the ethics of population control. Global Population Policy will appeal to a wide audience, including readers in the fields of women's studies, development politics and international relations.

Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources,Committee to Review the Bureau of Land Management Wild Horse and Burro Management Program
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-04
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309264945

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Using Science to Improve the BLM Wild Horse and Burro Program by National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources,Committee to Review the Bureau of Land Management Wild Horse and Burro Management Program Pdf

Using Science to Improve the BLM Wild Horse and Burro Program: A Way Forward reviews the science that underpins the Bureau of Land Management's oversight of free-ranging horses and burros on federal public lands in the western United States, concluding that constructive changes could be implemented. The Wild Horse and Burro Program has not used scientifically rigorous methods to estimate the population sizes of horses and burros, to model the effects of management actions on the animals, or to assess the availability and use of forage on rangelands. Evidence suggests that horse populations are growing by 15 to 20 percent each year, a level that is unsustainable for maintaining healthy horse populations as well as healthy ecosystems. Promising fertility-control methods are available to help limit this population growth, however. In addition, science-based methods exist for improving population estimates, predicting the effects of management practices in order to maintain genetically diverse, healthy populations, and estimating the productivity of rangelands. Greater transparency in how science-based methods are used to inform management decisions may help increase public confidence in the Wild Horse and Burro Program.

Author : Seminar on Human Fertility and Population Problems
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Birth control
ISBN : UOM:39015072113098

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Human Fertility and Population Problems by Seminar on Human Fertility and Population Problems Pdf

Author : Shirley Hsiao-Li Sun
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136507816

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Population Policy and Reproduction in Singapore by Shirley Hsiao-Li Sun Pdf

This book examines the relationship between population policies and individual reproductive decisions in low-fertility contexts. Using the case study of Singapore, it demonstrates that the effectiveness of population policy is a function of competing notions of citizenship, and the gap between seemingly neutral policy incentives and the perceived and experienced disparate effects. Drawing on a substantial number of personal interviews and focus groups, the book analyzes the developmental welfare state’s overarching emphasis of citizen responsibility, and examines population policies that reinforce social inequalities and ignore cultural diversity. These factors combine to undermine elaborate state policy efforts in encouraging citizens’ biological reproduction. The book goes on to argue that in order to facilitate positive fertility decisions, the state needs to modify the “economic production at all cost” approach and pay much more attention to the importance of social rights. This suggests that the Singapore government might profitably approach the phenomenon of very low fertility with major initiatives similar to those of other advanced industrialized societies. This book offers a significant contribution to the literature on social policy, East Asian and Southeast Asian studies.

Author : Charles Knowlton
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664622884

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Fruits of Philosophy: A Treatise on the Population Question by Charles Knowlton Pdf

'Fruits of Philosophy: A Treatise on the Population Question' by Charles Knowlton was a groundbreaking publication that caused controversy for its discussion of contraception in the early 19th century. Originally published anonymously in Massachusetts, the pamphlet detailed methods for controlling reproduction and preventing pregnancy, which was considered illegal and obscene material at the time. The book was later republished in Europe and used by activists in the first attempts to repeal obscenity laws in the United States and Great Britain. This slim volume provides a fascinating historical perspective on the then-taboo topic of birth control and includes chapters on limiting the number of offspring, generation, promoting and checking conception, and the reproductive instinct.

Author : Betsy Hartmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015031825287

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Reproductive Rights and Wrongs by Betsy Hartmann Pdf

With a new introduction, this fully revised edition of a feminist classic reveals the dangers of contemporary population control tactivs, especially as they affect women in developing countries.

Author : Mytheli Sreenivas
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295748856

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Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India by Mytheli Sreenivas Pdf

Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295748856 Beginning in the late nineteenth century, India played a pivotal role in global conversations about population and reproduction. In Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India, Mytheli Sreenivas demonstrates how colonial administrators, postcolonial development experts, nationalists, eugenicists, feminists, and family planners all aimed to reform reproduction to transform both individual bodies and the body politic. Across the political spectrum, people insisted that regulating reproduction was necessary and that limiting the population was essential to economic development. This book investigates the often devastating implications of this logic, which demonized some women’s reproduction as the cause of national and planetary catastrophe. To tell this story, Sreenivas explores debates about marriage, family, and contraception. She also demonstrates how concerns about reproduction surfaced within a range of political questions—about poverty and crises of subsistence, migration and claims of national sovereignty, normative heterosexuality and drives for economic development. Locating India at the center of transnational historical change, this book suggests that Indian developments produced the very grounds over which reproduction was called into question in the modern world. The open-access edition of Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India is freely available thanks to the TOME initiative and the generous support of The Ohio State University Libraries.

Author : W. Penn Handwerker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367008831

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Culture and Reproduction by W. Penn Handwerker Pdf

World population growth, especially its fertility component, poses a major dilemma for policymakers throughout the world. However, theoretical developments in demography have not yet provided a solid foundation for understanding contemporary population processes. From an anthropological perspective, the current micro-level models do not properly recognize the cultural and biological constraints within which people make reproductive decisions. On the macro level, demographic transition continues to be linked to processes of "modernization." Arguing that it is necessary to readdress micro-level issues in light of the cultural-historical variability of particular places and times and to explore linkages between macro- and micro-level phenomena through which population processes work themselves out, the contributors point the way to new theoretical formulations of the concept of culture, the nature of macro/micro linkages, and methods of placing demographic theory within the more encompassing framework of evolutionary theory.

Author : National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Birth control
ISBN : UOM:39015057723028

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A Survey of Research on Reproduction Related to Birth and Population Control by National Institutes of Health (U.S.) Pdf

Author : National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Birth control
ISBN : UCR:31210003698618

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A Survey of Research on Reproduction Related to Birth and Population Control, as of January 1, 1963 by National Institutes of Health (U.S.) Pdf

Author : National Research Council,Commission on Life Sciences,Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology,Committee on Hormonally Active Agents in the Environment
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000-02-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309064194

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Hormonally Active Agents in the Environment by National Research Council,Commission on Life Sciences,Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology,Committee on Hormonally Active Agents in the Environment Pdf

Some investigators have hypothesized that estrogens and other hormonally active agents found in the environment might be involved in breast cancer increases and sperm count declines in humans as well as deformities and reproductive problems seen in wildlife. This book looks in detail at the science behind the ominous prospect of "estrogen mimics" threatening health and well-being, from the level of ecosystems and populations to individual people and animals. The committee identifies research needs and offers specific recommendations to decision-makers. This authoritative volume: Critically evaluates the literature on hormonally active agents in the environment and identifies known and suspected toxicologic mechanisms and effects of fish, wildlife, and humans. Examines whether and how exposure to hormonally active agents occursâ€"in diet, in pharmaceuticals, from industrial releases into the environmentâ€"and why the debate centers on estrogens. Identifies significant uncertainties, limitations of knowledge, and weaknesses in the scientific literature. The book presents a wealth of information and investigates a wide range of examples across the spectrum of life that might be related to these agents.

Author : Betsy Hartmann
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781608467341

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Reproductive Rights and Wrongs by Betsy Hartmann Pdf

“Those involved in women’s health issues, Third World studies, and economic development should find food for thought” (Kirkus Reviews). This is an updated edition of the “influential study” (Publishers Weekly) of issues surrounding childbirth and the history of population control programs. Challenging conventional wisdom about overpopulation, and uncovering the deeper roots of poverty, environmental degradation, and gender inequalities, the author uses data and vivid case studies to explore how population control programs came to be promoted by powerful governments, foundations, and international agencies as an instrument of Cold War development and security policy. Mainly targeting poor women, these programs were designed to drive down birth rates as rapidly and cheaply as possible, with coercion often a matter of course. In the war on population growth, birth control was deployed as a weapon, rather than a tool of reproductive choice. Threaded throughout is the story of how international women’s health activists fought to reform population control and promote a new agenda of sexual and reproductive health and rights for all. While their efforts bore fruit, obstacles remain. On one side is the anti-choice movement that wants to deny women access not only to abortion but to most methods of contraception. On the other is a resurgent, well-funded population control lobby that often obscures its motives with the language of women’s empowerment. Despite declining birth rates worldwide—average global family size is now 2.5 children—overpopulation alarm is on the rise, tied now to the threats of climate change and terrorism. Reproductive Rights and Wrongs reveals how these developments are rooted in the longer history and politics of population control. In this book, a new generation of readers will find knowledge and inspiration for the ongoing struggle to achieve reproductive rights and social, environmental, and gender justice.