03218nam 2200637 450 991046030510332120200520144314.01-78533-351-81-78539-616-11-78238-428-6(CKB)3710000000244281(EBL)1644360(SSID)ssj0001348528(PQKBManifestationID)12586047(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001348528(PQKBWorkID)11371452(PQKB)10381975(MiAaPQ)EBC1644360(Au-PeEL)EBL1644360(CaPaEBR)ebr10934950(CaONFJC)MIL646511(OCoLC)891188488(EXLCZ)99371000000024428120141003h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA world of populations transnational perspectives on demography in the twentieth century /edited by Heinrich Hartmann and Corinna R. Unger ; Maria Dörnemann [and nine others], contributorsNew York ;Oxford, England :Berghahn Books,2014.©20141 online resource (259 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-322-15256-X 1-78238-427-8 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.Title page; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Introduction; PART I PRODUCING DEMOGRAPHIC SUBJECTS ; 1 The View From Below and the View From Above ; 2 "Reproduction" as a New Demographic Issue in Interwar Poland ; 3 Family Planning-A Rational Choice? ; 4 "Overpopulation" and the Politics of Family Planning in Chile and Peru ; 5 Revisiting the Early 1970s Commoner-Ehrlich Debate about Population and Environment ; PART II DEMOGRAPHIC KNOWLEDGE IN PRACTICE ; 6 Counting People ; 7 Laparoscopy as a Technology of Population Control ; 8 A Twofold Discovery of Population9 Seeing Population as a Problem 10 Filtering Demography and Biomedical Technologies ; Notes on Contributors ; IndexDemographic study and the idea of a ""population"" was developed and modified over the course of the twentieth century, mirroring the political, social, and cultural situations and aspirations of different societies. This growing field adapted itself to specific policy concerns and was therefore never apolitical, despite the protestations of practitioners that demography was ""natural."" Demographics were transformed into public policies that shaped family planning, population growth, medical practice, and environmental conservation. While covering a variety of regions and time periods, the eDemographyHistory20th centuryPopulationElectronic books.DemographyHistoryPopulation.304.609/04Hartmann Heinrich1977-Unger Corinna R.Dörnemann MariaMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910460305103321A world of populations2108903UNINA