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  • 1
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511525698
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 330 pages)
    Series Statement: Society for the Study of Human Biology symposium series 40
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    DDC: 306.4/61
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    Keywords: Stadt ; Urban health ; Cities and towns / Health aspects ; Urban ecology (Sociology) / Health aspects ; City dwellers / Health aspects ; Humanbiologie ; Verstädterung ; Gesundheit ; Stadt ; Industriestaaten ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Industriestaaten ; Verstädterung ; Gesundheit ; Industriestaaten ; Stadt ; Gesundheit ; Industriestaaten ; Humanbiologie
    Abstract: Over seventy per cent of the population in industrialized nations live in cities; soon, so will most of the world's population. This volume examines the impact of urban living on human health and biology. Cities pose numerous and diverse social and biological challenges to human populations which bear little resemblance to the forces that moulded human biology through millions of years of evolution. Urban populations in industrialized nations have distinctive patterns of behaviour, social stratification, stress, infectious disease, diet, activity and exposure to pollutants from years of industrialization. These features affect diverse aspects of human function including human nutrition, energy expenditure, growth and reproduction. This volume begins with an introduction to the history of urbanism and poverty, infectious disease, reproductive function, child health, nutrition, physical activity and psychosocial stress. The book will appeal to workers in urban planning, human biology, anthropology, preventative medicine, human ecology and related areas
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Urbanism, urbanisation, health and human biology: an introduction / Lawrence M. Schell and Stanley J. Ulijaszek -- 2. Urbanisation and urbanism in industrialised nations, 1850-present: implications for health / A. J. McMichael -- 3. Urban development and change: present patterns and future prospects / David Clark -- 4. Traditional environments: health and the perception of permanence in urban micro-environments / R. Huss-Ashmore and C. Behrman -- 5. Emerging infectious diseases: biology and behavior in the inner city / George DiFerdinando -- 6. Fecundity and ovarian function in urban environments / P. T. Ellison -- 7. Pollution and child health / L. M. Schell and A. D. Stark -- 8. Urbanism and health in industrialised Asia / J. Peters -- 9. Urban poverty and nutrition in the United Kingdom / E. Dowler -- 10. Poverty, nutrition and obesity in the USA / F. E. Johnston and P. Gordon-Larsen -- 11. Nutritional status and its health consequences among low-income urban pregnant women: diet and environmental toxicants / S. Czerwinski -- 12. Urbanism and psychosocial stress / Tessa M. Pollard -- 13. Physical activity, lifestyle and health of urban populations / S. J. Ulijaszek -- 14. HIV transmission in urban environments: London and beyond / M. Parker -- 15. The future of urban environments / S. J. Ulijaszek and L. M. Schell
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  • 2
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511660344
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xxii, 657 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time 32
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    DDC: 304.6/0942
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1580-1837 ; Geschichte ; Mortality / England / History ; Fertility, Human / England / History ; Family reconstitution / England / History ; Bevölkerung ; England / Population / History ; England ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; England ; Bevölkerung ; Geschichte 1580-1837
    Abstract: English Population History from Family Reconstitution 1580–1837 is the most important single contribution to English historical demography since Wrigley and Schofield's Population History of England. It represents the culmination of work carried out at the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure over the past quarter-century. This work demonstrates the value of the technique of family reconstitution as a means of obtaining accurate and detailed information about fertility, morality, and nuptiality in the past. Indeed, more is now known about many aspects of English demography in the parish register period than about the post-1837 period when the Registrar-General collected and published information. Using data from 26 parishes, the authors show clearly that their results are representative not only of the demographic situation of the parishes from which the data were drawn, but also of the country as a whole. Some very surprising features of the behaviour of past populations are brought to light for the first time
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. The reconstitution parishes -- 3. Representativeness -- 4. Reliability -- 5. Nuptiality -- 6. Mortality -- 7. Fertility -- 8. Reconstitution and inverse projection -- 9. Conclusion -- App. 1. A list of the reconstituted parishes from which data were drawn and of the names of those who carried out the reconstitutions -- App. 2. Examples of the slips and forms used in reconstitution and a description of the system of weights and flags employed -- App. 3. Truncation bias and similar problems -- App. 4. Tests for logical errors in reconstitution data -- App. 5. Correcting for a 'missing' parish in making tabulations of marriage age -- App. 6. The estimation of adult mortality -- App. 7. Adjusting mortality rates taken from the four groups to form a single series -- App. 8. The calculation of the proportion of women still fecund at any given age
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  • 3
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511621611
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xv, 304 pages)
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    DDC: 304.6/32
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    Keywords: Fertility, Human / Cross-cultural studies ; Human reproduction / Cross-cultural studies ; Demographic anthropology ; Anthropologie ; Fertilität ; Kulturvergleich ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Fertilität ; Kulturvergleich ; Fertilität ; Anthropologie
    Abstract: In this collection of essays ten anthropologists and two historians address the world-wide pattern of falling birth rates. Fertility has commonly been treated from a specialized demographic perspective, but there is today widespread dissatisfaction with conventional demographic approaches, which are criticized for neglecting the cultural, social, and political forces that affect reproductive behavior. For their part, anthropologists have only recently begun to apply their characteristic approaches to the study of reproduction. Drawing on new ethnographic and historical research and on a variety of theoretical approaches, the contributors to this book indicate some of the ways in which demography might take into account historical processes, political forces, and cultural conceptions
    Description / Table of Contents: Anthropology theorizes reproduction: integrating practice, political economic, and feminist perspectives / Susan Greenhalgh -- Political-economic and cultural explanations of demographic behavior / David I. Kertzer -- Agency and fertility: for an ethnography of practice / Anthony T. Carter -- Invisible cultures: poor women's networks and reproductive strategies in nineteenth-century Paris / Rachel G. Fuchs and Leslie Page Moch -- The power of names: illegitimacy in a Muslim community in Côte d'Ivoire / Robert Launay -- Marginal members: children of previous unions in Mende households in Sierra Leone / Caroline Bledsoe -- Women's empowerment and fertility decline in western Kenya / Candice Bradley -- High fertility and poverty in Sicily: beyond the culture vs. rationality debate / Peter Schneider and Jane Schneider -- History, marriage politics, and demographic events in the central Himalaya / Tom Fricke -- Economics 1, culture 0: fertility change and differences in the northwest Balkans, 1700-1900 / E.A. Hammel -- Afterword: (Re)capturing reproduction for anthropology
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