Dynamics of human reproduction : biology, biometry, demography /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Aldine de Gruyter,
[1994]
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| Series: | Foundations of human behavior.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.