Managing Reproductive Life

Managing Reproductive LifeThroughout history human societies have sought to manage their reproductive lives to make them fit in with their social, economic and biological conditions. But the different ways communities regulate their fertility, penetrating every aspect of their social life, are so varied and specific that they are often incomprehensible to outsiders. In this book a group of anthropologists set out to throw new light on the dynamics of human reproduction in the

up-to-date investigations of Durkheim’s work in an effort to restore its freshness and reveal it as originally created

the philosophy of technology

The analyses of these programs examines how young people might achieve a level of economic and political self-determination and community control

Prus considers people's definitions of

As curriculum gate-keepers

especially its radiobiological modelling applications

Romero demonstrates how the embodied Socrates is setting forth an eikôn of the death of the philosopher

Cheng argues throughout the book that the philosophical underpinnings of basic concepts in Chinese culture are ultimately rooted in key claims found within the Yijing易經and one of its standard commentaries

The book is an historical extension of the sociology of scientific knowledge and develops and refines themes found in the work of Alfred Sohn-Rethel and Gideon Freudenthal

Includes introductions to the author's original models such as the "Five Errors of Communication" and the "Four C's of Parenting"

The Maimonidean encounter with the theory

such as slow speed of kill