Winner, American Sociological Association Asia and Asian America Section Best Book on
Asia/Transnational Asia Finalist, 2015 C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of …

" This is a seminal contribution to policy making as a subject of anthropological study. But to
say only this would obscure the often gripping and intricate story of Chinese expert politics …

The first major historical account of gender politics during the Nasser era, Revolutionary
Womanhood analyzes feminism as a system of ideas and political practices, international in …

Good land policy provides a diversity of land uses with plural property relations. No single
kind of property rules fits the purposes of all types of land uses. Neither is a de-tached single …

During the past two decades, estimates of unmet need have become an influential measure
for assessing population policies and programs. This article recounts the evolution of the …

The development of an agreed-upon set of foundational ethical values for the field of public
health is ongoing. In this paper we outline key elements of recent convergence on some …

Purpose The world is on the verge of entering the deglobalization age, and industrialized
economies have ushered it in. However, there is still a scarcity of comprehensive and …

Demography was heavily involved in the eugenics movement of the early twentieth century
but, along with most other social science disciplines, largely rejected eugenic thinking in the …

During the early 1990s, global health experts developed a new model of emergency
obstetric care: post-abortion care or PAC. In developing countries with restrictive abortion …

In India, sterilisation is the most frequent method of modern contraception, and is primarily
used by women. The contemporaneous assessment of sterilisation literature focuses only on …