Dynamics of Human Reproduction: Biology, Biometry, Demography

ISBN-13: 9780202011806 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 670 str.

James W. Wood

Opis

This long-awaited book presents a comprehensive, integrated and up-to-date overview of the major physiological and behavioral factors affecting human reproduction. Trained as an anthropologist as well as a demographer, the author summarizes data from a wide range of societies, and writes with signal clarity on the interaction between biology and behavior. A unique combination of comprehensive subject matter and an integrated analytical approach makes the book ideally suited both as a graduate-level textbook and as a reference work.

Spis treści

I: Natural Fertility; 1: Introduction; 2: Patterns of Natural Fertility; 3: Frameworks for Analyzing the Determinants of Natural Fertility; II: The Proximate Determinants of Natural Fertility; 4: Ovarian Cycles and the Fertile Period; 5: Conception, Implantation, and Pregnancy; 6: Fetal Loss; 7: Fecundability and Coital Frequency; 8: Breastfeeding and Postpartum Infecundability; 9: Menarche and Menopause; 10: The Onset of Permanent Sterility; 11: Marriage and the Male Contribution; III: Beyond the Proximate Determinants; 12: Extensions and Elaborations

O autorze

James W. Wood