Philip Kreager

Population in the Human Sciences

Concepts, Models, Evidence
Herausgeber: Winney, Bruce; Ulijaszek, Stanley

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Produktbeschreibung

Addresses the need for review and assessment of the framework of interdisciplinary population studies. It includes chapters on anthropology, archaeology, demography, ecology, epidemiology, geography, genomics, human biology, population genetics, social and demographic history, the history of science, and social network analysis.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 628
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 180mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 1247g
• ISBN-13: 9780199688203
• ISBN-10: 0199688206
• Artikelnr.: 47870118

Autorenporträt

Philip Kreager is an anthropological demographer and historian of population thought and analysis. He is Senior Research Fellow in Human Sciences, Somerville College; Director, Fertility and Reproductive Studies Group, School of Anthropology; Lecturer and Tutor in Population, Institute of Human Sciences; and Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Population Ageing, Oxford University. He currently co-directs an exploratory anthropological and demographic study of problems of malaria treatment in the eastern archipelago of Indonesia. During 1999-2007 he directed Ageing in Indonesia, a multi-site longitudinal study of ageing in three Indonesian Communities, supported by the Welcome Trust. This work has led to continuing collaboration with the University of Indonesia, where he is Honorary Professor. Dr Kreager has a primary interest in the history of population thought, particularly as a common ground of theory and analysis linking the biological and social sciences.

Inhaltsangabe

* PART I. Population in the Human Sciences: An Introduction
* Introduction
* PART II. What is a Population?
* 1: Philip Kreager: Population and the Making of the Human Sciences:
An Historical Outline
* 2: Walter Bodmer and Bruce Winney: Population Genetics: The Study of
the Genetic Structure of Human Populations
* 3: Daniel John Lawson: Populations in Statistical Genetic Modelling
and Inference
* 4: Kenneth W. Wachter: Population Heterogeneity in the Spotlight of
Biodemography
* PART III. Rethinking Intra- and Inter-Population Dynamics
* 5: John Odling-Smee: Niche Construction in Human Evolution and
Demography
* 6: Simon Szreter: Populations for Studying the Causes of Britain's
Fertility Decline: Communication Communities
* 7: Hans-Peter Kohler, Stéphane Helleringer, Jere R. Behrman, and
Susan C. Watkins: The Social and the Sexual: Networks in Contemporary
Demographic Research
* 8: Jennifer A. Johnson-Hanks: Populations are Composed One Event at a
Time
* PART IV. Mechanisms of Local Level Variation and Change of State
* 9: Elisabeth Schröder-Butterfill: Networks, Strata, and Ageing:
Towards a Compositional Demography of Vulnerability
* 10: Graeme Hugo: Constructing Migration in Southeast Asia:
Conceptual, Empirical, and Policy Issues
* 11: Melissa J. Brown: Collective Identities, Shifting Population
Membership, and Niche Construction Theory: Implications from
Taiwanese and Chinese Empirical Evidence
* 12: Hillard Kaplan, Paul L. Hooper, Jonathan Stieglitz, and Michael
Gurven: The Causal Relationship between Fertility and Infant
Mortality: Prospective Analyses of a Population in Transition
* PART V. Constructing Populations in the Long Term
* 13: Francesc Calafell and David Comas: Genetics and the
Reconstruction of African Population History
* 14: Sarah Elton and Jason Dunn: Species, Populations, and Groups in
Hominin Evolution
* 15: Mikolaj Szoltysek: Residence Patterns and the Human-Ecological
Setting in Historical Eastern Europe: A Challenge of Compositional
(Re)analysis
* 16: Mark Elvin: Linking Late-Imperial and Early Modern Population
Dynamics in the Lower Yangzi Valley: An Analysis of Xiaoji Township
* PART VI. Identifying Sub-Populations for Disease Treatment and
Control
* 17: Chris Spencer: From Populations to Clines in Modern Statistical
Genetics
* 18: Simon Gregson and Tim Hallett: Population Structure and Public
Health Research on HIV Control in Sub-Saharan Africa
* 19: Stephen Kunitz: Interventions in Context
* 20: Klim McPherson: Hormones and Disease: Contested Knowledge of
Exogenous Hormones in the Evaluation of Oral Contraceptives and
Hormone Replacement Therapy