The Anthropological Demography of Health
Edited by Véronique Petit, Kaveri Qureshi, Yves Charbit, and Philip Kreager
Table of Contents
Introduction, Philip Kreager, Véronique Petit, Kaveri Qureshi, Yves Charbit
Part I: TAKING THE LONGER VIEW: HEALTH INTERVENTIONS IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT
1. Cultures of Contagion and Containment? The Geography of Smallpox in Britain in the Pre-vaccination Era, Romola Davenport
2. The Prostitute as an Urban Savage, Paris 1830 -1914. French Nineteenth-Century Premises of the Anthropological Demography of Health, Yves Charbit
3. Medical Topography as an Instrument of Colonial Management in French Algeria, 1830-1871, Hugues Moussy
4. Peer Learning and Health-related Interventions: Family Planning and Nutrition in Kenya and Uganda, 1950-2019, Shane Doyle
Part II: HEALTH AS AN OBJECT OF CONTEMPORARY DEMOGRAPHIC GOVERNANCE
5. An Anthropological Demography of Mental Health in Senegal, Véronique Petit
6. 'As list karhayee ke bayad anjame midadam khat khord': Contemporary Reproductive Body Politic in Iran, Soraya Tremayne
7. Beyond the Government Document: Migrant Family Experiences of Birth Registration in East Lombok, Indonesia, Leslie Butt
8. Reporting Statistics on Undernutrition and Obesity, Stanley Ulijaszek
Part III: IMPROVING DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSLATION
9. Making Measures: Processes of Demographic Translation, Jennifer A. Johnson-Hanks
10. The Tensions between Comparability and Locally Meaningful Data, Sara Randall
11. Verbal Autopsy Interview Standardization Study: Report from the Field, Clarissa Surek-Clark
Part IV: COMPOSITIONAL DEMOGRAPHY: LOCATING HUMAN AGENCY IN POPULATION AND SOCIAL STRUCTURES
12. Population Ageing and Conjunctural Action, Philip Kreager and Elisabeth Schröder-Butterfill
13. Incapacity and Debility among Pakistani Migrants and Minorities in the UK, Kaveri Qureshi
14. Family Malaria Management in Africa: At the Crossroads of Social Epidemiology and Health Anthropology, Carine Baxerres and Jean-Yves Le Hesran
Part V: RECONCEPTUALISING REPRODUCTIVE RISK
15. Reproductive Genetics, Risk, and Context, Alison Shaw
16. Sexuality and HIV among Young Urban Congolese, Lucas Tchetgnia, Yves Charbit, and Benoît Libali
17. Body Symbolics, Obstetric Practices, and the Improvement of Maternal Health in Cambodia, Clémence Schantz
18. Concealed Pregnancies and Protected Postpartum Periods: Defining Critical Periods of Maternal Health in Nepal, Jan Brunson
19. 'They Are More Careful': Transnational Care among Chinese Migrant Parents in Italy, Elizabeth L. Krause