Works of a general and comprehensive nature. Studies that are limited to well-defined problems of demography are cited under the relevant topic and are cross-referenced to this division, if appropriate.
Comprehensive, book-length surveys of the present status of demography and its principal branches, including the historical development of these studies, analytical studies of demography as a whole, and global population studies.
62:20001 Diamond, Irene. Fertile
ground: women, earth, and the limits of control. ISBN
0-8070-6772-5. LC 93-39064. 1994. xi, 202 pp. Beacon Press: Boston,
Massachusetts. In Eng.
In this book, the author questions much of
the modern feminist approach to issues concerning reproduction and
sexuality. In particular, she suggests that Western feminism leans
toward technological solutions to the problems that women face in the
modern world, and toward women's achieving control of those
technologies. Instead, she maintains that the solutions to contemporary
global problems in the area of sexual behavior, reproduction, fertility
control, and food production have to be found in the context of
resolving the world's ecological problems as a whole. "Throughout
this book the politics of fertility--from the development of birth
control movements in the United States and the state's involvement in
family planning to the commodification and standardization of human
procreation and food production across the globe--provides a concrete,
theoretically rich touchstone for examining both the difficulties of
feminism's dominant position regarding women's bodies and the
environmental movement's dominant position regarding the deleterious
impact of human numbers."
Correspondence: Beacon
Press, 25 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108-2892. Location:
Princeton University Library (FST).
62:20002 Eberstadt, Nicholas. The
tyranny of numbers: mismeasurement and misrule. ISBN
0-8447-3763-1. LC 92-4238. 1995. xxii, 305 pp. AEI Press: Washington,
D.C. Distributed by AEI Press, c/o Publisher Resources, 1224 Heil
Quaker Boulevard, P.O. Box 7001, La Vergne, TN 37086-7001. Distributed
outside the U.S. by Eurospan, 3 Henrietta Street, London WC2E 8LU,
England. In Eng.
This book contains a selection of studies, many of
which have been previously published elsewhere by the author. They
illustrate aspects of one main theme: that modern governments
increasingly base the development of social and economic policies on
the official statistics they gather, and that, in many cases, these
statistics are fundamentally flawed. Topics covered include the paradox
of continuing poverty in the United States; the U.S. levels of infant
mortality in an international perspective; health, nutrition, and
literacy under Communism; the decline in health in Eastern Europe;
demographic factors in the former Soviet Union; the CIA's assessment of
the Soviet economy; poverty in South Africa; the world food problem;
global investment and industrialization; global debt; and world
population trends and U.S. security.
Correspondence: AEI
Press, 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20036. Location:
Princeton University Library (FST).
Short (fewer than 100 pages), general works on population and global population studies. Items on activities of research institutions in demography are also included.
62:20003 Hampl, Martin; Pavlík,
Zdenek. Problems of the global population development
and/or development of global problems of mankind. Acta
Universitatis Carolinae: Geographica, Vol. 28, No. 1, 1993. 3-14 pp.
Prague, Czech Republic. In Eng. with sum. in Cze.
The authors
discuss problems related to global population development. They focus
on rapid population growth, population policy, optimum population, and
social structures and processes.
Correspondence: M. Hampl,
Charles University, Faculty of Science, Department of Social Geography
and Regional Development, Prague, Czech Republic. Location:
Princeton University Library (FST).
62:20004 Hartmann, Betsy.
Population fictions: the Malthusians are back in town. Dollars
and Sense, No. 195, Sep-Oct 1994. 14-7, 37 pp. Somerville,
Massachusetts. In Eng.
The author discusses various
misrepresentations of the impact of population growth throughout the
world. The focus is on differences and similarities in consumption
patterns, growth, and environmental degradation in developed and
developing countries.
Correspondence: B. Hartmann,
Hampshire College, Population and Development Program, Amherst, MA
01002. Location: Princeton University Library (PF).
62:20005 Keyfitz, Nathan.
Generation replacement in a period of change. [Le remplacement
des générations dans une période de transition.]
Population, Vol. 50, No. 6, Nov-Dec 1995. 1,639-57 pp. Paris, France.
In Fre.
This article discusses the consequences of the current
economic revolution, which involves the globalization of markets by
computers. The author considers the impact this revolution will have on
the future of the family, particularly as it affects education and
employment. He also challenges demographers to take the lead in the
social sciences in analyzing the consequences of these changes for the
next generation.
Correspondence: N. Keyfitz, Harvard
University, 9 Bow Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:20006 Sagrera, Martin.
Population crisis. ISBN 84-404-7822-4. 1995. 72 pp. Editorial
Fundamentos: Madrid, Spain. In Eng.
This is a general introduction
to the problems posed by global population growth. The author includes
chapters on current demographic trends, demographic aging, sexuality,
religion, and abortion, and discusses the reasons for the position
taken by the Roman Catholic Church against birth
control.
Correspondence: Editorial Fundamentos, Caracas 15,
28010 Madrid, Spain. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
62:20007 United Nations Population Fund
[UNFPA] (New York, New York). Global population assistance
report, 1993. 7th ed. ISBN 0-89714-275-6. [1995]. 59 pp. New York,
New York. In Eng.
This report provides information on global
assistance for population activities for the year 1993. It is based on
a survey carried out in September 1994. Information is included on
primary donor countries, multilateral assistance, and nongovernmental
agencies, as well as on the recipient countries. The data are given for
each year from 1984 to 1993.
For a previous report concerning 1992,
see 61:10007.
Correspondence: United Nations Population
Fund, 220 East 42nd Street, New York, NY 10017. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
Discussions of the main principles of demography and population theory not applied to actual data, including such concepts as Malthusianism, the demographic transition, overpopulation, optimum population, and stable and stationary population models as distinct from methodological studies and models using data, which are classified under N. Methods of Research and Analysis Including Models .
62:20008 Broome, John. The value
of life and the value of population. Journal of Population
Economics, Vol. 9, No. 1, Feb 1996. 3-18 pp. New York, New York/Berlin,
Germany. In Eng.
"This paper first distinguishes structured
and unstructured approaches to valuing life. The unstructured approach
bases its valuations on people's raw preferences, whereas the
structured approach imposes a theoretical framework about the structure
of value. The paper recommends the structured approach. This opens the
way to considering the value of adding people to the population. The
paper examines a common intuition that adding people is not in itself
valuable, and explains the difficulties this intuition
encounters."
Correspondence: J. Broome, University of
Bristol, Department of Philosophy, 9 Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1TB,
England. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:20009 Carey, Arlen D.; Lopreato,
Joseph. The evolutionary demography of the
fertility-mortality quasi-equilibrium. Population and Development
Review, Vol. 21, No. 3, Sep 1995. 613-30, 706-7, 708-9 pp. New York,
New York. In Eng. with sum. in Fre; Spa.
"Our general
contention here is that population dynamics can be grasped more fully
from a deeply historical perspective. We argue against the tendency to
emphasize the recent demographic transition to the near exclusion of
the quasi-equilibrium between fertility and mortality that appears to
have characterized most of the human past....First, we attempt to
identify the normal shape of the relationship between fertility and
mortality in human evolution. Next, we seek to explain the relationship
through an evolutionary-ecological approach that addresses demographic
phenomena in a holistic manner...; our reliance here is predominantly
on `life history theory' and a multifaceted argument conveniently
termed a `two-child psychology.' Finally, we briefly examine a number
of cultural factors that are related to demographic transitions and
that help to explain demographic
variation."
Correspondence: A. D. Carey, University of
Central Florida, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Orlando, FL
32611. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:20010 Dean, Russell. Owenism
and the Malthusian population question, 1815-1835. History of
Political Economy, Vol. 27, No. 3, Fall 1995. 579-97 pp. Durham, North
Carolina. In Eng.
"The population theory of T. R. Malthus (the
idea that population increase outstrips the means of subsistence) was
the source of several significant debates in the early nineteenth
century....The major critics of Malthusian population theory and, more
widely, classical political economy/ists in this period included the
British proto-socialists, the Owenites....This article has highlighted
the inadequacy of the historiography that has characterized the
relationship between a homogeneous Owenism and Malthusianism/political
economy as simply one of mutual enmity....There were claims and
counterclaims from some Owenites and political economists through the
1820s and 1830s, of a loss of difference between the two discourses,
claims of an abandoning of positions, and a convergence on the
Malthusianism issue. By 1835, this convergence appeared more tangible,
with the desertion of Malthusianism by many leading political
economists. For some Owenites and political economists therefore,
though by no means all, `Malthusianism' had ceased to be the site of
important differences between the two
discourses."
Correspondence: R. Dean, Murdoch
University, School of Social Sciences, History Program, Murdoch, WA
6150, Australia. Location: Princeton University Library (PF).
62:20011 Hunt, Charles W. Social
vs. biological: theories on the transmission of AIDS in Africa.
Social Science and Medicine, Vol. 42, No. 9, May 1996. 1,283-96 pp.
Tarrytown, New York/Oxford, England. In Eng.
"There are
fundamental differences in the epidemiological patterns of AIDS in
Africa and the United States. A number of theories have been advanced
to explain these differences. These theories may be divided into two
basic approaches, theories based upon biological explanations and
theories based upon social explanations....The present article
critically examines these biological and social theories. It argues
that the biological theories lack scientific support, lack sufficient
evidential support, have an inequality of cause and effect, and fail to
integrate the micro/macro. This article argues that the social theories
also have some major difficulties including, in some cases, a failure
to integrate the micro/macro and a lack of adequate or sufficient
causation to produce the massive epidemic of AIDS in
Africa."
Correspondence: C. W. Hunt, University of
Utah, Department of Sociology, Salt Lake City, UT 84112. Location:
Princeton University Library (PR).
62:20012 Rothschild, Emma. Social
security and laissez faire in eighteenth-century political
economy. Population and Development Review, Vol. 21, No. 4, Dec
1995. 711-44, 921, 923 pp. New York, New York. In Eng. with sum. in
Fre; Spa.
"The article describes two contrasting developments
of Adam Smith's ideas. Condorcet, following Turgot's reforms of the
1770s, described a theory of social equality based on free competition,
public instruction, and social security, and proposed a system of
social insurance establishments. Malthus in his Essay on Population
criticized Condorcet's ideal of social security, arguing that social
insurance would reduce industry and lead to increased population. The
conflict over fear versus confidence as incentives to industry was of
central importance to subsequent disputes in political economy. These
disputes are enlightening, it is suggested, for modern problems. They
cast doubt, first, on the presumption that social security is inimical
to economic development. Second, while they provide some support for
the modern view that social security tends to reduce fertility, they
suggest that this effect is associated more generally with social and
political equality. Third, they suggest that the politics of laissez
faire is compatible with criticism both of government and of powerful
corporate and local institutions."
Correspondence: E.
Rothschild, University of Cambridge, King's College, Centre for History
and Economics, Cambridge CB2 1ST, England. Location: Princeton
University Library (SPR).
62:20013 Smith, Claire E.; Smith, Joseph
W. Economics, ecology and entropy: the second law of
thermodynamics and the limits to growth. Population and
Environment, Vol. 17, No. 4, Mar 1996. 309-21 pp. New York, New York.
In Eng.
"The second law of thermodynamics has played an
important role in ecological economics as providing a justification for
the view that economies have limits to growth. Yet beyond basic
[textbook] statements of this law, we seldom find informed
philosophical examinations of the meaning and metaphysical
justification for the second law. In this paper we shall examine some
challenges which have been made to the limits to growth (Limitationist)
position by those criticizing the scope and application of the second
law of thermodynamics and we shall in turn defend Limitationism against
these criticisms."
Correspondence: J. W. Smith,
University of Adelaide, Department of Geography, Adelaide, South
Australia 5001, Australia. Location: Princeton University
Library (SPR).
62:20014 Wunsch, Guillaume.
"God has chosen to give the easy problems to the
physicists": or why demographers need theory. Institut de
Démographie Working Paper, No. 179, ISBN 2-87209-414-8. Mar
1995. 24 pp. Université Catholique de Louvain, Institut de
Démographie: Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. In Eng.
"Good
explanations of the causes and consequences of population trends
require theories taking account of both the micro and the macro levels,
of individuals and society. Multi-level theories cannot therefore be
based on a rationality principle which would be firmly grounded at the
individual level only....Demographic theories...have to tell us how and
why society influences individual behaviors concerning birth, death,
and migration, but also how and why individual behaviors are themselves
organised into higher-level social conducts. In other words, population
theories must integrate individual behavior and social
structure."
Correspondence: Université
Catholique de Louvain, Institut de Démographie, 1 place
Montesquieu, B.P. 17, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
Interdisciplinary studies of demographic problems and studies of the interaction of demography with other disciplines. This coding is also used for reports, studies, and surveys from other disciplines that include information of demographic interest.
Major demographic textbooks and teaching aids, general surveys and collections of readings that are particularly suitable as supplements to coursework, studies on the organization and coverage of training programs in demography, and selected items on population education.
62:20015 Loudon, Nancy; Glasier, Anna; Gebbie,
Ailsa. Handbook of family planning and reproductive health
care. 3rd ed. ISBN 0-443-05157-7. 1995. xii, 462 pp. Churchill
Livingstone: New York, New York/Edinburgh, Scotland. In Eng.
"This is a practical handbook for daily reference by those
working in family planning. It provides up to date coverage of all
aspects of family planning and in this third edition its scope has been
extended to women's reproductive health." The book is intended
primarily for those providing family planning services in the United
Kingdom. It consists of 17 chapters by different authors on the various
methods of contraception available. Chapters are also included on
family planning services and training, factors influencing
contraceptive choice, emergency postcoital contraception, induced
abortion, legal and ethical aspects of family planning, screening and
reproductive health, sexually transmitted diseases, sexuality and
family planning, gynecological problems, menopause, and contraception
of the future.
Correspondence: Churchill Livingstone, 650
Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10011. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:20016 Pressat, Roland. The
basics of mathematical demography. [Eleménts de
démographie mathématique.] ISBN 2-9509356-0-5. 1995. xi,
279 pp. Association Internationale des Démographes de Langue
Française [AIDELF]: Paris, France. In Fre.
This is a
textbook intended to introduce French-speaking students to the concepts
of mathematical demography. Topics covered include life tables,
nuptiality tables, fertility tables, interference between phenomena,
population models, stable populations, population replacement,
longitudinal analysis, and birth intervals.
Correspondence:
Association Internationale des Démographes de Langue
Française, 27 rue du Commandeur, 75675 Paris Cedex 14, France.
Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:20017 Racioppi, Filomena.
Professional demography and training opportunities: a survey among
Italian demographers. [Demografia professionale e
opportunità formative: un'indagine tra i demografi italiani.]
Materiali di Studi e di Ricerche, No. 9, Jan 1996. 15 pp.
Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Dipartimento di
Scienze Demografiche: Rome, Italy. In Ita. with sum. in Eng.
The
activities and orientations of 54 academic demographers in Italy are
analyzed, with reference to the potential for working in professional
fields outside the university. Comparisons are made with the United
States, where the subdiscipline of Applied Demography has
evolved.
Correspondence: Università degli Studi di
Roma la Sapienza, Dipartimento di Scienze Demografiche, Via Nomentana
41, Rome 00161, Italy. Location: Princeton University Library
(SPR).
62:20018 Rogers, Andrei.
Multiregional demography: principles, methods and extensions.
ISBN 0-471-95892-1. 1995. xi, 236 pp. John Wiley and Sons: Chichester,
England. In Eng.
This study is designed as a textbook on
multiregional demography that combines and updates the author's
previous work on this subject. "This book...is an exposition of
some of the mathematics of multiregional population systems. It is
designed for the reader who is familiar with the mathematics of
uniregional demographic analysis and is primarily intended to be a
reference work for mathematically inclined demographers, sociologists,
geographers, economists, and regional planners." Particular
attention is paid to the analysis of migration and its contribution to
projections of the growth and distribution of multiregional population
systems. The concepts are illustrated with observed data from many
different countries.
Correspondence: John Wiley and Sons,
Baffins Lane, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 1UD, England. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:20019 Vandeschrick, Christophe.
Demographic analysis. [Analyse démographique.]
Population et Développement, No. 1, ISBN 2-87209-416-4. 1995.
183 pp. Academia-Bruylant: Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium; L'Harmattan:
Paris, France; Centre International de Formation et de Recherche en
Population et Développement [CIDEP]: Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
In Fre. with sum. in Eng.
This book is intended to introduce
readers to the reasons for undertaking demographic analysis and to the
methods of such analysis. The emphasis is on the ways in which
demographers approach problems of demographic analysis rather than on
the actual methods that they use. The objective is not to train
demographers in analytical techniques, but to enable the reader to
understand the demographic concepts under discussion. Separate
consideration is given to Lexis diagrams; the analysis of fertility,
mortality, spatial mobility, and population growth; and the analysis of
age and sex distribution and sex ratios.
Correspondence:
Academia-Bruylant, 25 Grand Rue, Boite 115, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve,
Belgium. Location: Princeton University Library (SPR).
62:20020 Vidal, Annie.
Demography: the basics of analysis and population dynamics.
[Démographie: eléments d'analyse et évolution du
peuplement humain.] L'Economie en Plus, ISBN 2-7061-0558-5. 1994. 154
pp. Presses Universitaires de Grenoble: Grenoble, France. In Fre.
This is a basic introduction to the concepts and methods of
demography. There are chapters on data sources and the collection of
data; the methods commonly used by demographers; the analysis of
mortality, fertility, nuptiality, and migration data; population
characteristics, change, and reproduction; and the growth of the human
population.
Correspondence: Presses Universitaires de
Grenoble, B.P. 47, 38040 Grenoble Cedex 9, France. Location:
Princeton University Library (SPR).
