Regional diversity, emphasis on local situations The essays in this collection provide a new approach to demography: history of knowledge The text is among the few publications in the field that cover the whole 20th century
Regional diversity, emphasis on local situations The essays in this collection provide a new approach to demography: history of knowledge The text is among the few publications in the field that cover the whole 20th century
Heinrich Hartmann is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Basel, Switzerland. His book, Der Volkskörper bei der Musterung. Militärstatistik und Demographie in Europa vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg (Wallstein 2011) received the Henry E. Sigerist Award in 2012. His research focuses on the history of nineteenth and twentieth century demography in Europe and on the history of Turkish modernization in a transnational perspective.
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List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction: Counting, Constructing, and Controlling Populations: The History of Demography, Population Studies, and Family Planning in the Twentieth Century Corinna R. Unger and Heinrich Hartmann Part I: Producing Demographic Subjects: Transnational Discourses Chapter 1. The View From Below and the View From Above: What U.S. Census-taking Reveals about Social Representations in the Era of Jim Crow and Immigration Restriction Paul Schor Chapter 2. "Reproduction" as a New Demographic Issue in Interwar Poland Morgane Labbé Chapter 3. Family Planning: A Rational Choice? The Influence of Systems Approaches, Behavioralism, and Rational Choice Thinking on Mid-Twentieth Century Family Planning Programs Corinna R. Unger Chapter 4. "Overpopulation" and the Politics of Family Planning in Chile and Peru: Negotiating National Interests and Global Paradigms in a Cold War World Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney Chapter 5. Revisiting the Early 1970s Commoner-Ehrlich Debate about Population and Environment: Dueling Critiques of Production and Consumption in a Global Age Thomas Robertson Part II: Demographic Knowledge in Practice: Transfers and Transformations Chapter 6. "Counting People": The Emerging Field of Demography and the Mobilization of the Social Sciences in the Formation of Policy, South Korea since 1948 John Paul DiMoia Chapter 7. Laparoscopy as a Technology of Population Control: A Use-Centered History of Surgical Sterilization Jesse Olszynko-Gryn Chapter 8. A Twofold Discovery of Population: Assessing the Turkish Population by its "Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices", 1962-1980 Heinrich Hartmann Chapter 9. Seeing Population as a Problem: Influences of the Construction of Population Knowledge on Kenyan Politics (1940s to 1980s) Maria Dörnemann Chapter 10. Filtering Demography and Biomedical Technologies: Melanesian Nurses and Global Population Concerns Alexandra Widmer Index
List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction: Counting, Constructing, and Controlling Populations: The History of Demography, Population Studies, and Family Planning in the Twentieth Century Corinna R. Unger and Heinrich Hartmann Part I: Producing Demographic Subjects: Transnational Discourses Chapter 1. The View From Below and the View From Above: What U.S. Census-taking Reveals about Social Representations in the Era of Jim Crow and Immigration Restriction Paul Schor Chapter 2. "Reproduction" as a New Demographic Issue in Interwar Poland Morgane Labbé Chapter 3. Family Planning: A Rational Choice? The Influence of Systems Approaches, Behavioralism, and Rational Choice Thinking on Mid-Twentieth Century Family Planning Programs Corinna R. Unger Chapter 4. "Overpopulation" and the Politics of Family Planning in Chile and Peru: Negotiating National Interests and Global Paradigms in a Cold War World Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney Chapter 5. Revisiting the Early 1970s Commoner-Ehrlich Debate about Population and Environment: Dueling Critiques of Production and Consumption in a Global Age Thomas Robertson Part II: Demographic Knowledge in Practice: Transfers and Transformations Chapter 6. "Counting People": The Emerging Field of Demography and the Mobilization of the Social Sciences in the Formation of Policy, South Korea since 1948 John Paul DiMoia Chapter 7. Laparoscopy as a Technology of Population Control: A Use-Centered History of Surgical Sterilization Jesse Olszynko-Gryn Chapter 8. A Twofold Discovery of Population: Assessing the Turkish Population by its "Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices", 1962-1980 Heinrich Hartmann Chapter 9. Seeing Population as a Problem: Influences of the Construction of Population Knowledge on Kenyan Politics (1940s to 1980s) Maria Dörnemann Chapter 10. Filtering Demography and Biomedical Technologies: Melanesian Nurses and Global Population Concerns Alexandra Widmer Index
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