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Population in the Human Sciences
. Ed(S): Kreager, Philip; Winney, Bruce; Ulijaszek, Stanley; Capelli, Cristian
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Description for Population in the Human Sciences
Addresses the need for review and assessment of the framework of interdisciplinary population studies. It includes chapters on anthropology, archaeology, demography, ecology, epidemiology, geography, genomics, human biology, population genetics, social and demographic history, the history of science, and social network analysis. Editor(s): Kreager, Philip; Winney, Bruce; Ulijaszek, Stanley; Capelli, Cristian. Num Pages: 640 pages, 96 Figures and 58 Tables. BIC Classification: JHBD; JHM; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 255 x 182 x 43. Weight in Grams: 1254.
The Human Sciences address problems in nature and society that often require coordinated approaches of several scientific disciplines and scholarly research, embracing the social and biological sciences, and history. When we wish, for example, to understand how some sub-populations and not others come to be vulnerable, why a disease spreads in one part of a population and not another, or which gene variants are transmitted across generations, then a remarkable range of disciplinary perspectives need to be brought together, from the study of institutional structures, cultural boundaries, and social networks down to the micro-biology of cellular pathways, and gene expression. ... Read more
The Human Sciences address problems in nature and society that often require coordinated approaches of several scientific disciplines and scholarly research, embracing the social and biological sciences, and history. When we wish, for example, to understand how some sub-populations and not others come to be vulnerable, why a disease spreads in one part of a population and not another, or which gene variants are transmitted across generations, then a remarkable range of disciplinary perspectives need to be brought together, from the study of institutional structures, cultural boundaries, and social networks down to the micro-biology of cellular pathways, and gene expression. ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
640
Condition
New
Number of Pages
628
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199688203
SKU
V9780199688203
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About . Ed(S): Kreager, Philip; Winney, Bruce; Ulijaszek, Stanley; Capelli, Cristian
Philip Kreager is an anthropological demographer and historian of population thought and analysis. He is Senior Research Fellow in Human Sciences, Somerville College; Director, Fertility and Reproductive Studies Group, School of Anthropology; Lecturer and Tutor in Population, Institute of Human Sciences; and Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Population Ageing, Oxford University. He currently co-directs an exploratory anthropological and demographic study ... Read more
Reviews for Population in the Human Sciences
Ultimately, philosophically inclined readers and historians of science may get the most out of this book, as it offers a panoramic view of the of human sciences.
Joseph Lachance, Quarterly Review of Biology
Joseph Lachance, Quarterly Review of Biology