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Author:   Philip Kreager (Senior Research Fellow in Human Sciences, Somerville College, and Lecturer and Tutor in Demography, Institute of Human Sciences, Oxford University) ,  Bruce Winney (Department of Oncology, University of Oxford) ,  Stanley Ulijaszek (Professor of Human Ecology, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford University) ,  Cristian Capelli (University Lecturer in Human Evolution, Department of Zoology, Oxford University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 18.20cm , Height: 4.00cm , Length: 25.30cm
Weight:   1.254kg
ISBN:  

9780199688203

ISBN 10:   0199688206
Pages:   628
Publication Date:   05 March 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

PART I. Population in the Human Sciences: An Introduction Philip Kreager, Bruce Winney, Stanley Ulijaszek, Cristian Capelli: 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

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Ultimately, philosophically inclined readers and historians of science may get the most out of this book, as it offers a panoramic view of the of human sciences. * Joseph Lachance, Quarterly Review of Biology *

Ultimately, philosophically inclined readers and historians of science may get the most out of this book, as it offers a panoramic view of the of human sciences. Joseph Lachance, Quarterly Review of Biology

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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.

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