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Susan Cotts Watkins

Professor Emerita of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
Fertility and reproduction

Demography vs ethnography (or Understanding AIDS in Malawi)

March 4, 2021November 14, 2016 Susan Cotts Watkins
Africa, Contraception, Health, Mortality, sex

Daniel Scott Smith, a historical demographer, said it well: demography has all the ingredients of the best novels, sex and death, but they hide the pleasure of the former under … Read more

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