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MCDB 150

Global Problems of Population Growth

Undergraduate · Historical course

Spring 2009

Topics

  • Evolution of Sex and Reproductive Strategies
  • Sex and Violence Among the Apes
  • From Ape to Human
  • When Humans Were Scarce
  • Why Is Africa Different?
  • Malthusian Times
  • Demographic Transition in Europe; Mortality Decline
  • Demographic Transition in Europe; Fertility Decline
  • Demographic Transition in Europe
  • Quantitative Aspects
  • Low Fertility in Developed Countries (Guest Lecture by Michael Teitelbaum)
  • Human and Environmental Impacts
  • Fertility Attitudes and Practices
  • Demographic Transition in Developing Countries
  • Female Disadvantage
  • Population in Traditional China
  • Population in Modern China
  • Economic Impact of Population Growth
  • Economic Motivations for Fertility
  • Teen Sexuality and Teen Pregnancy
  • Global Demography of Abortion
  • Media and the Fertility Transition in Developing Countries (Guest Lecture by William Ryerson)
  • Biology and History of Abortion
  • Population and the Environment

Readings

  • Bible, New International Version. [Colorado Springs]: Biblica, 2011. (BibleGateway.com). The Creation: Genesis 1, Dust to Dust: Genesis 3:19, Onan: Genesis 38:8; Deuteronomy 25:5, Abortion: Exodus 21:22, Jump for Joy: Luke 1:24 :26 :36; Jeremiah 1:4-5.
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  • Birdsall, Nancy and Steven Sinding. Why Population Matters . New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
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  • Boserup, Ester. Woman's Role in Economic Development . New York: St. Martin's Press, 1970.
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  • Bumiller, Elizabeth. May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons: A Journey among the Women of India . New York: Ballantine Books, 1991.
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  • Campbell, Neil A., Jane B. Reece and Lawrence G. Mitchell. Biology , 5th edition. Menlo Park, CA: Addison Wesley Longman, Inc., 1999.
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  • Carlson, Elof. Mendel's Legacy: The Origin of Classical Genetics . Cold Spring Harbor: Cold Spring Laboratory Press, 2004.
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  • Cohen, Joel E. How Many People Can the Earth Support . New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1995.
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  • Dash, Leon. When Children Want Children . New York: Penguin Books, 1990.
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  • De Waal, Frans. Our Inner Ape . New York: Penguin Books, 2005.
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  • De Waal, Frans. Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex among Apes . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989.
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  • Faundes, Anibal and Jose Barzelatto. The Human Drama of Abortion: A Global Search for Consensus . Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2006.
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  • Forsyth, Adrian. A Natural History of Sex. The Ecology and Evolution of Sexual Behavior . New York: Charles Scribner and Sons, 1986.
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  • Gilbert, Scott. Developmental Biology , 7th edition. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates Inc., 2003.
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  • Gillis, John R., Louise A. Tilly and David Levine. Introduction to The European Experience of Declining Fertility 1850-1970: The Quiet Revolution . Cambridge: Blackwell Publishers, 1992.
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  • Goodall, Jane. The Chimpanzees of Gombe: Patterns and Behavior . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986.
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  • Harrison, Paul. The Third World: Population, Environment, and a Sustainable World . New York: Penguin Books, 1993.
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  • Harrison, Paul. The Third Revolution: Environment, Population and a Sustainable World . London: I B Tauris & Co Ltd, 1992.
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  • Hurtado, A. Magdalena and Kim Hill. Ache Life History: The Ecology and Demography of a Foraging People . Hawthorne: Aldine Books, 1996.
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  • Keeley, Lawrence. War before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage . New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
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  • Kenney, Paul. Preparing for the Twenty-First Century . New York: Vintage Books, 1994.
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  • Lidz, Theodore and Ruth W. Lidz. Oedipus in the Stone Age: A Psychoanalytic Study of Masculinization in Papua New Guinea . Madison: International Universities Press, 1989.
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  • Livi-Bacci, Massimo. A Concise History of World Population: An Introduction to Population Processes . Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2001.
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  • Luker, Kristin. Dubious Conceptions: The Politics of Teenage Pregnancy . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996.
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  • Luker, Kristin. Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood . Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1984.
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  • Mohr, James C. Abortion in America: The Origins and Evolution of National Policy . New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.
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  • Mosher, Steven. Mother's Ordeal: One Woman's Fight Against China's One-Child Policy . Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993.
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  • Noonan, John T. The Morality of Abortion. An Almost Absolute Value in History . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970.
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  • Peterson, Dale and Richard Wrangham. Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence . Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996.
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  • Rogers, Everett and D. Lawrence Kincaid. Communication Networks: Toward a New Paradigm for Research . London: Collier MacMillan Publishers, 1981.
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  • Smith, Robert J. and Ella Wiswell. The Women of Suya Mura . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.
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  • Teitelbaum, Michael and Jay Winter. The Fear of Population Decline . Orlando: Academic Press, 1985.
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  • Thompson, Sharon. Going All the Way; Teenage Girls' Tales of Sex, Romance, and Pregnancy . New York: Hill and Wang, 1995.
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  • Tuchman, Barbara. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century . New York: Knopf, 1978.
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  • Weeks, John R. Population: An Introduction to Concepts and Issues , 8th edition. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 2002.
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  • Ying, Hong. Daughter of the River . Translated by Harold Goldblatt. New York: Grove Press, 1998.
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  • Articles
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  • Barrionuevo, Alexei. "Amid Abuse in Brazil, Abortion Debate Flares." The New York Times, 27 March 2009.
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  • Belanger, Daniele and Andrea Flynn. "The Persistence of Induced Abortion in Cuba." Studies in Family Planning, no. 40 (2009), pp. 13-26.
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  • Belanger, Daniele. "Son Preference in a Rural Village in North Vietnam." Studies in Family Planning, 33 (2002), pp. 324-332.
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  • Berelson, Bernard and Ronald Freedman. "A Study in Fertility Control." Scientific American, 21, pp. 29-37.
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  • Bermingham, John. "Poor Countries Have Many Problems: Economic Development Is not an Easy Job." The Tanzania Times (March 1997), pp. 5-14.
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  • Bledsoe, Caroline, Fatoumatta Banja and Allan Hill. "Reproductive Mishaps and Western Contraception: An African Challenge to Fertility Theory." Population and Development Review, 24, pp. 15-18, 20 and 33-45.
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  • Bloom, David and David Canning. "How Demographic Change Can Bolster Economic Performance in Developing Countries." World Economics, Vol. 4, no. 4 (2003), pp. 1-13.
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  • Bryant, John. "Theories of Fertility Decline and Evidence from Development Indicators." Population and Development Review, no. 33 (2007), pp. 101-104 and 122-124.
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  • Caldwell, John, Pat Caldwell and Peter McDonald. "Policy Responses to Low Fertility and Its Consequences: A Global Survey." Journal of Population Research, 19 (2002), pp. 1-20.
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  • Caldwell, Pat and John Caldwell. "High Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa." Scientific American (May 1990), pp. 118-125.
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  • Caldwell, Pat, John Caldwell and I.O. Orubuloye. "The Destabilization of the Traditional Yoruba Sexual System."Population and Development Review, 17, pp. 231-238.
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  • Coale, Ansley and Susan Watkins. The Decline of Fertility in Europe: The Revised Proceedings of a Conference on the Princeton European Fertility Project, pp. 38 and 420-449.
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  • Cohen, Susan A. "Delayed Marriage and Abstinence-until-Marriage: On a Collision Course." The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy, Vol. 7, no. 2 (June 2004).
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  • Daley, Suzanne. "Screening Girls for Abstinence in South Africa." The New York Times, 17 August 1999.
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  • De Waal, Frans. "Bonobo Sex and Society." Scientific American (March 1995), pp. 82-88.
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  • Deutsch, Claudia. "A Not-So-Simple Plan to Keep African Girls in School." The New York Times, 12 November 2007.
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  • Diamond, Jared. "Sex and the Female Agenda." Discover (September 1993), pp. 86-93.
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  • Doolittle, Amity. "The Unseen, Unheard and Misunderstood: What Can We Learn from the Social History of Property Relations?" Tropical Resources: The Bulletin of the Yale Tropical Resources Institute, no. 21 (Spring 2002), pp. 4-5.
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  • Dreifus, Claudia. "On the Ground and in the Water: Tracing a Giant Wave's Path." The New York Times, 25 December 2007.
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  • Family Portrait: A Clan Keeps on Growing. National Geographic (March 2001).
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  • Geertz, Clifford. "Book Review: A Society without Fathers or Husbands. The Na of China." The New York Review of Books, Vol. 48, no. 16, 18 October 2001.
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  • Gladwell, Malcolm. "Dr. Rock's Error." The New Yorker, 13 March 2000, pp. 52-63.
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  • Haberman, Clyde. "Let Others Hit the Panic Button; Caviar's Served." The New York Times, 6 January 2006.
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  • Hardin, Garrett. "The Tragedy of the Commons." Science, Vol. 162, no. 3859, 13 December 1968, pp. 1243-1248.
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  • Henshaw, Stanley. "Review of 'The Human Drama of Abortion.'" Studies in Family Planning, Vol. 38, no. 2 (2007), pp. 141-142.
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  • Hertsgaard, Mark. "Our Real China Problem." The Atlantic Monthly (November 1997), pp. 1-17.
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  • Higgins, Matthew and Jeffrey Williamson. "Age Structure Dynamics in Asia and Dependence on Foreign Capital."Population and Development Review, no. 23 (June 1997), pp. 261-293.
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  • Hitt, Jack. "El Salvador: Pro-Life Nation." The New York Times Magazine, 9 April 2006.
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  • Jehl, Douglas. "Arab Honor's Price: A Woman's Blood." The New York Times, 20 June 1999.
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  • LaFraniere, Sharon. "Another School Barrier for African Girls: No Toilet." The New York Times, 23 December 2005.
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  • Langer, William. "Checks on Population Growth: 1750-1850." Scientific American (February 1972), pp. 92-99.
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  • Langer, William. "Europe's Initial Population Explosion." Harvard Today (Spring 1964), pp. 2-10.
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  • Lee, James and Wang Feng. "Malthusian Models and Chinese Realities: China's Demographic System 1700-2000."Population and Development Review, 25 (1999), pp. 33-65.
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  • Lloyd, Cynthia. "Investing in the Next Generation: The Implications of High Fertility at the Level of the Family." In R. Cassen, ed. Population and Development: Old Debates, New Conclusions. Washington, D.C.: Overseas Development Council, 1994, pp. 181-202.
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  • Nie, Yilin and Robert Wyman. "The One-Child Policy in Shanghai: Acceptance and Internalization." Population and Development Review, 31 (2005), pp. 313-336.
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  • Onishi, Norimitsu. "Ah, The Tonic of Ginseng! Especially a $65,000 Sprig!" The New York Times, 23 August 2007.
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  • Panayotou, Theodore. " The Population, Environment, and Development Nexus." In R. Cassen, ed. Population and Development: Old Debates, New Conclusions. Washington, D.C.: Overseas Development Council, 1994, pp. 149-152.
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  • Perlez, Jane. "Forests in Southeast Asia Fall to Prosperity's Ax." The New York Times, 29 April 2006.
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  • Perry, Dana Heinz. "A Wrongful Birth." The New York Times Magazine, 2 April 2006.
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  • Philips, James F., Sajeda Amin and Gholam M. Kamal. "The Determinants of Reproductive Change in Bangladesh: Success in a Challenging Environment." World Bank Publications (June 1994), pp. 1-6 and 131-151.
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  • Repetto, Robert. "Second India Revisited: Population Poverty and Environmental Stress over Two Decades." World Resources Institute (June 1994), pp. 11-20.
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  • Robey, Bryant, Shea O. Rutstein and Leo Morris. "The Fertility Decline in Developing Countries." Scientific American(December 1993), pp. 60-67.
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  • Rogers, Vaughan, Rao Swalehe and Sood Svenkerud. "Effects of an Entertainment-Education Radio Soap Opera of Family Planning Behavior in Tanzania." Studies in Family Planning, no. 30 (1999), pp. 193-211.
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  • Rosenbaum, Janet. "Reborn a Virgin: Adolescents Retracting of Virginity Pledges and Sexual Histories." American Journal of Public Health, no. 96 (2006), pp. 1098-1103.
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  • Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. "Death without Weeping." Natural History (October 1989), pp. 8-16.
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  • Sciolino, Elaine. "Radicalism: Is the Devil in the Demographics?" The New York Times, 9 December 2001.
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  • Sengupta, Somini. "In Bombay, Public Indignity Is Poverty's Partner." The New York Times, 10 February 2002.
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  • Shorto, Russell. "The War on Contraception." The New York Times Magazine, 7 May 2006.
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  • Teitelbaum, Michael. "The Media Marketplace for Garbled Demography." Population and Development Review, 30 (2004), pp. 317-326.
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  • The Associated Press. "Agency Approves a Birth-Control Pill Halting Periods Indefinitely." The New York Times, 23 May 2007.
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  • Trenholm, Christopher, Barbara Devaney, Ken Fortson, Lisa Quay, Justin Wheeler, and Melissa Clark. Impacts of Four Title V, Section 510 Abstinence Education Programs, Final Report. Washington D.C.: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2007.
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  • Tropper, Jonathan. "Goodbye Too Soon." The New York Times Magazine, 6 March 2005.
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  • U.S. Supreme Court: Roe v. Wade, 1973, pp. 16-26.
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  • Van de Walle, Etienne. "Fertility Transition, Conscious Choice and Numeracy." Demography, 29, pp. 490-496.
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  • Wade, Nicolas. "Books on Science: Dr. Tatiana, a Dr. Ruth with Advice for Other Species." The New York Times, 5 November 2002.
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  • Wolch, Mary Jean. "Open Letter from a Catholic Birth Mother." Conscience, 17, no. 3 (1996), pp. 25-28.
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  • Wyman, Robert. "The Projection Problem." Population and Environment, Vol. 24, no. 4 (2003), pp. 329-337.
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  • Zezima, Katie. "Spike in School's Pregnancies Leads to Report that Some Resulted from Girls' Pact." The New York Times, 20 June 2008.
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