Susan Greenhalgh kept detailed diaries of her 8-month experience as a patient diagnosed with chronic fibromyalgia, a muscular disease about which little is known apart from its penchant for attacking women. Using these diaries as a unique window, UNDER THE MEDICAL GAZE peers into the biomedical industry and questions its power to influence people ...
In this collection of essays ten anthropologists and two historians address the world-wide pattern of falling birth rates. Fertility has commonly been treated from a specialized demographic perspective, but there is today widespread dissatisfaction with conventional demographic approaches, which are criticized for neglecting the cultural, social, ...
China's one-child rule is unassailably one of the most controversial social policies of all time. In the first book of its kind, Susan Greenhalgh draws on twenty years of research into China's population politics to explain how the leaders of a nation of one billion decided to limit all couples to one child. Focusing on the historic period 1978-80 ...
China's giant project in social engineering has drawn worldwide attention, both because of its coercive enforcement of strict birth limits, and because of the striking changes that have occurred in China's population: one of the fastest fertility declines in modern history and a gender gap among infants that is the highest in the world. These ...
Susan Greenhalgh kept detailed diaries of her 8-month experience as a patient diagnosed with chronic fibromyalgia, a muscular disease about which little is known apart from its penchant for attacking women. Using these diaries as a unique window, UNDER THE MEDICAL GAZE peers into the biomedical industry and questions its power to influence people ...
In this collection of essays ten anthropologists and two historians address the world-wide pattern of falling birth rates. Fertility has commonly been treated from a specialized demographic perspective, but there is today widespread dissatisfaction with conventional demographic approaches, which are criticized for neglecting the cultural, social, ...
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