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Pt. 1. Natural fertility -- Natural fertility -- The human reproductive pattern -- Why the emphasis on females? -- Patterns of natural fertility -- Measures of fertility -- Levels of natural fertility -- Intrapopulation variation in natural fertility -- Patterns in parity progression ratios -- The age pattern of natural fertility -- A model of natural fertility and fertility control -- Frameworks for analyzing the determinants of natural fertility -- The pace of childbearing -- The proximate determinants of fertility.
Bongaarts's decomposition of the proximate determinants -- An alternative approach -- Analytical issues in the study of birth-interval components -- Pt. 2. The proximate determinants of natural fertility -- Ovarian cycles and the fertile period -- Major features of the human ovarian cycle -- The life cycle of the female germ cell -- Follicular development and ovulation -- Neuroendocrine regulation of the ovarian cycle -- Intrapopulation variation in ovarian cycles -- Interpopulation variation in ovarian cycles.
Do women in natural-fertility populations experience regular ovarian cycles? -- The fertile period -- Conception, implantation, and pregnancy -- The sperm cell and spermatogenesis -- Fertilization -- Implantation and embryogenesis -- The endocrinology of pregnancy -- The physiological costs of pregnancy -- Parturition -- The biometry of pregnancy -- Fetal loss -- Sources of data on fetal loss -- The fertility-reducing effect of fetal loss -- The expected number of fetal deaths in each birth interval.
The relationship between maternal age and the risk of fetal loss -- Length of gestation ending in fetal loss -- The duration of residual infecundability following each fetal death -- The total impact of fetal loss -- The etiology of fetal loss -- Fecundability and coital frequency -- Fecundability and the distribution of conception waits -- Empirical estimates of fecundability and conception waits -- Fecundability and age -- Models of fecundability -- Empirical patterns of intercourse -- Assessing the impact of observed coital patterns.
Breastfeeding and postpartum infecundability -- The physiology of lactation -- The contraceptive effect of breastfeeding -- The neuroendocrine control of lactational infecundability -- Durations of lactational infecundability: empirical distributions and models -- Suckling patterns and lactational infecundability -- Is nocturnal breastfeeding of special importance? -- Menarche and menopause -- The biology of menarche -- The biology of menopause -- Differentials and trends in menarche and menopause -- The onset of permanent sterility.
Problems in definition -- The biology of sterility -- Analytical issues -- Estimators of permanent sterility -- Sterility and the age pattern of natural fertility -- Marriage and the male contribution -- Marriage and fertility -- The male contribution -- Pt. 3. Beyond the proximate determinants -- Extensions and elaborations -- How does the reproductive process work? -- The relative effects of the proximate determinants -- How do the proximate determinants interact? -- More remote influences -- Some final thoughts --- Appendix: An introduction to quantitative endocrinology / Kenneth L. Campbell and James W. Wood.
James W. Wood ; with an appendix by Kenneth L. Campbell and James W. Wood.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 591-641) and index.