The anthropological demography of health
'The Anthropological Demography of Health' explores the combination of anthropological and demographic approaches to public health research, charting the growing body of research that combines ethnography with quantitative models and methods in the field of population health.
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, New York :
Oxford University Press
[2020]
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| Edición: | First edition |
| Colección: | Oxford scholarship online.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009816738406719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Philip Kreager, Véronique Petit, Kaveri Qureshi, and Yves Charbit
- I. Taking the longer view: health interventions in historical context. Cultures of contagion and containment? The geography of smallpox in Britain in the pre-vaccination era / Romola Davenport ; Medical topography as an instrument of colonial management in French Algeria, 1830-71 / Hugues Moussy ; The prostitute as an urban savage, Paris 1830-1914: French nineteenth-century premises of the anthropological demography of health / Yves Charbit ; Peer learning and health-related interventions: family planning and nutrition in Kenya and Uganda / Shane Doyle
- II. Health as an object of contemporary demographic governance. An anthropological demography of mental health in Senegal / Véronique Petit ; 'As list e karhayee ke bayad anjame midadam khat khord': contemporary reproductive body politic in Iran / Soraya Tremayne ; Beyond the government document: migrant family experiences of birth registration in East Lombok, Indonesia / Leslie Butt ; Reporting statistics on undernutrition and obesity / Stanley Ulijaszek
- III. Improving demographic translation. Making measures: processes of demographic translation / Jennifer A Johnson-Hanks ; The tensions between comparability and locally meaningful data / Sara Randall ; Verbal autopsy interview standardization study: a report from the field / Clarissa Surek-Clark
- IV. Compositional demography: locating human agency in population and social structures. Population ageing and conjunctural action / Philip Kreager and Elisabeth Schröder-Butterfill ; Incapacity and debility among Pakistani migrants and minorities in the United Kingdom / Kaveri Qureshi ; Family malaria management in Africa: at the crossroads of social epidemiology and medical anthropology / Carine Baxerres and Jean-Yves Le Hesran
- V. Reconceptualizing reproductive risk. Reproductive genetics, risk, and context / Alison Shaw ; Sexuality and HIV among young urban Congolese / Lucas Tchetgnia, Yves Charbit, and Benoît Libali ; Body symbolics, obstetric practices, and the improvement of maternal health in Cambodia / Clémence Schantz ; Concealed pregnancies and protected postpartum periods: defining critical periods of maternal health in Nepal / Jan Brunson ; 'They are more careful': transnational care among Chinese migrant parents in Italy / Elizabeth L Krause ; Afterword / Yves Charbit, Véronique Petit, Kaveri Qureshi, and Philip Kreager.
