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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.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Part I: TAKING THE LONGER VIEW: HEALTH INTERVENTIONS IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT
- 1: Romola Davenport: Cultures of Contagion and Containment? The Geography of Smallpox in Britain in the Pre-vaccination Era
- 2: Yves Charbit: The Prostitute as an Urban Savage, Paris 1830 -1914. French Nineteenth-Century Premises of the Anthropological Demography of Health
- 3: Hugues Moussy: Medical Topography as an Instrument of Colonial Management in French Algeria, 1830-1871
- 4: Shane Doyle: Peer Learning and Health-related Interventions: Family Planning and Nutrition in Kenya and Uganda, 1950-2019
- Part II: HEALTH AS AN OBJECT OF CONTEMPORARY DEMOGRAPHIC GOVERNANCE
- 5: Véronique Petit: An Anthropological Demography of Mental Health in Senegal
- 6: Soraya Tremayne: 'As list karhayee ke bayad anjame midadam khat khord': Contemporary Reproductive Body Politic in Iran
- 7: Leslie Butt: Beyond the Government Document: Migrant Family Experiences of Birth Registration in East Lombok, Indonesia
- 8: Stanley Ulijaszek: Reporting Statistics on Undernutrition and Obesity
- Part III: IMPROVING DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSLATION
- 9: Jennifer A. Johnson-Hanks: Making Measures: Processes of Demographic Translation
- 10: Sara Randall: The Tensions between Comparability and Locally Meaningful Data
- 11: Clarissa Surek-Clark: Verbal Autopsy Interview Standardization Study: Report from the Field
- Part IV: COMPOSITIONAL DEMOGRAPHY: LOCATING HUMAN AGENCY IN POPULATION AND SOCIAL STRUCTURES
- 12: Philip Kreager and Elisabeth Schröder-Butterfill: Population Ageing and Conjunctural Action
- 13: Kaveri Qureshi: Incapacity and Debility among Pakistani Migrants and Minorities in the UK
- 14: Carine Baxerres and Jean-Yves Le Hesran: Family Malaria Management in Africa: At the Crossroads of Social Epidemiology and Health Anthropology
- Part V: RECONCEPTUALISING REPRODUCTIVE RISK
- 15: Alison Shaw: Reproductive Genetics, Risk, and Context
- 16: Lucas Tchetgnia, Yves Charbit, and Benoît Libali: Sexuality and HIV among Young Urban Congolese
- 17: Clémence Schantz: Body Symbolics, Obstetric Practices, and the Improvement of Maternal Health in Cambodia
- 18: Jan Brunson: Concealed Pregnancies and Protected Postpartum Periods: Defining Critical Periods of Maternal Health in Nepal
- 19: Elizabeth L. Krause: 'They Are More Careful': Transnational Care among Chinese Migrant Parents in Italy
About the author
Véronique Petit is Professor of Demography at the University of Paris. She is specialist in reproductive health, mental health, and international migration in sub-Saharan Africa.
Kaveri Qureshi is Lecturer in Global Health Equity at the University of Edinburgh. She has an interdisciplinary background in sociology, anthropology, and public health. She works on health and social inequalities in the UK and Pakistan, with a focus on migration, 'race'/ethnicity, gender, and the management of health and illness in families.
Yves Charbit is Emeritus Professor of Demography at the University of Paris and Founding Director of the Centre Population et Développement at Paris Descartes University. He is a specialist in reproductive health and population theory.
Philip Kreager is Senior Research Fellow in Human Sciences, Somerville College and Director, Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group, School of Anthropology, Oxford University. He is a co-editor of Population in the Human Sciences (OUP, 2015).
Summary
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.
