The Anthropological Demography of Health
Published on 30. October 2020
Book
Hardback
572 pages
978-0-19-886243-7 (ISBN)
Description
The anthropological demography of health, as a field of interdisciplinary population research, has grown from the 1990s, extending to a remarkable range of key human and policy issues, including: genetic disorders; nutrition; mental health; infant, child, and maternal morbidity; malaria; HIV/AIDS; disability and chronic diseases; new reproductive technologies; and population ageing. By observing group formation and change over time, tracking people's networks, and observing variance between what people say and do, anthropological demography goes beyond the characteristically top-down formal methodologies of most mainstream socio-economic demography and population health. This path-breaking volume charts and integrates the growing body of research that combines ethnography with quantitative models and methods in the field of population health. It offers a clear agenda based on important conceptual and methodological advances, and often working in close collaboration with medical and historical research.
Approaches to population that are grounded in sustained ethnographic and historical research provide more than substantive knowledge of how cultural and social formations interact with health. They enable understanding of how local institutions and experience of vital events come to be translated into the demographic and health measures on which survey and clinical programmes rely. This, in turn, makes possible critical evaluation of the empirical adequacy of such translation, reflection on what happens when these models and measures become standardised evaluations of health statuses, and what this implies for governance. The combination of anthropological, demographic, historical, and biological research has gone beyond the initial demographic prioritisation of fertility regulation, to take on an expanded range of key health policy issues, and locate them in the context of the inequalities that so frequently give rise to major health differentials. The Anthropological Demography of Health offers a clear agenda for the application and extension of combined anthropological and demographic thinking in population health, and will provide a point of reference for the field.
Approaches to population that are grounded in sustained ethnographic and historical research provide more than substantive knowledge of how cultural and social formations interact with health. They enable understanding of how local institutions and experience of vital events come to be translated into the demographic and health measures on which survey and clinical programmes rely. This, in turn, makes possible critical evaluation of the empirical adequacy of such translation, reflection on what happens when these models and measures become standardised evaluations of health statuses, and what this implies for governance. The combination of anthropological, demographic, historical, and biological research has gone beyond the initial demographic prioritisation of fertility regulation, to take on an expanded range of key health policy issues, and locate them in the context of the inequalities that so frequently give rise to major health differentials. The Anthropological Demography of Health offers a clear agenda for the application and extension of combined anthropological and demographic thinking in population health, and will provide a point of reference for the field.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
1157 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-886243-7 (9780198862437)
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Véronique Petit | Kaveri Qureshi | Yves Charbit
The Anthropological Demography of Health
E-Book
10/2020
1st Edition
OUP eBook
€138.99
Available for download
Véronique Petit | Kaveri Qureshi | Yves Charbit
The Anthropological Demography of Health
E-Book
10/2020
1st Edition
OUP eBook
€138.99
Available for download
Persons
Veronique 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 Developpement 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).
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 Developpement 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).
Editor
Professor of DemographyProfessor of Demography, University of Paris
Lecturer in Global Health EquityLecturer in Global Health Equity, University of Edinburgh
Emeritus Professor of DemographyEmeritus Professor of Demography, University of Paris
Senior Research Fellow in Human SciencesSenior Research Fellow in Human Sciences, Somerville College, Oxford University
Content
Philip Kreager, Veronique Petit, Kaveri Qureshi, Yves Charbit: 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: Veronique 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 Schroeder-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 Benoit Libali: Sexuality and HIV among Young Urban Congolese
17: Clemence 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
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: Veronique 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 Schroeder-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 Benoit Libali: Sexuality and HIV among Young Urban Congolese
17: Clemence 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