Population in perspective /
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New York, NY :
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1968.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Biological factors
- The Malthusian laws
- Essay on the principle of population / Thomas R. Malthus
- Death and death control
- Role of war, famine, and disease in controlling population / Marston Bates
- Increase in life expectancy due to modern medicine / Harrison Brown
- Food and fertility
- The conflict between creeds and needs / Karl Sax
- The dangerous doctor / William Vogt
- Malthus and the conscience of mankind / Ritchie Calder
- Fertile is the bed of misery / Josue de Castro
- Comments on the De Castro theory / Karl Sax
- Starvation and fertility / Marston Bates
- Birth control
- Beginning of the birth control movement / James Alfred Field
- Beginning of the movement in the United States / Marston Bates
- My fight for birth control / Margaret Sanger
- The pill / John Rock.
- Part II: Economic and political factors
- Population and prosperity
- Children become an economic liability / A.F.K. and Katherine Organski
- Population / Kingsley Davis
- Population increase and economic development / Eugene R. Black
- Effect of density / Ansley J. Coale
- The American fertility cult / Lincoln H. and Alice Taylor Day
- Attempts to raise the birth-rate / A.M. Carr-Saunders
- Economic incentives in Sweden / Robert C. Cook
- Population and policy
- Issues of population policy / Frank Lorimer
- Progressive production of a relative surplus-population or industrial reserve army / Karl Marx
- Communist and other misconceptions / Frederick Osborn
- Population and power
- Population and world politics / Philip hauser.
- Nations and numbers / A.F.K. and Katherine Organski
- Demographic factors in national efficiency / Kingsley Davis
- The widening gap / Harrison Brown
- the white man's dilemma / John Boyd Orr and David Lubbock
- Part III: Religious and social factors
- Religious beliefs on parenthood and marriage
- As mankind thinketh / William Vogt
- Parenthood and world religions / Richard M. Fagley
- The interests of Catholic Christianity / Frank Lorimer
- Mater it Magister, encyclical letter / Pope John XXIII
- Excerpts from majority and minority reports of papal panel on birth control
- "Populorum Progressio" / Pope Paul VI
- A protestant's view / The Rt. Rev. James A. Pike
- Responsible parenthood and the population problem / Richard M. Fagley
- Sex and the meaning of marriage
- Comments on sex / Donald Culross Peattie.
- Sex and reproduction / H.G. Wells, J. Huxley, and G.P. Wells
- Social customs as they affect fertility
- Attitudes and practices affecting fertility / Frederick Osborn
- Child brides / Ritchie Calder
- The family in China: the classical form / Francis L.K. Hsu
- The family in China: the People's Republic / Morton H. Fried
- A study in fertility control / Bernard Berelson and Ronald Freedman
- Puerto Rico / Richard L. Meier
- The voluntary family: too large or too small?
- The small family problem / A.M. Carr-Saunders
- Changing family size in the United States / Committee on Population, National Academy of Sciences
- Fad / Lincoln H. and Alice Taylor Day
- Declining birthrate in the United States / Paul Woodring
- Nightmare for future reference / Stephen Vincent Benet
- Population and human fulfilment / Julian Huxley
- The last flower / James Thurber.
- Part IV: Prospects for the future
- Effect of crowding and stress: new insights from biological experiments
- Nature's balance, the teetering see-saw / Sally Carrighar
- Population control in animals / V.C. Wynne-Edwards
- Population density and social pathology / John B. Calhoun
- Cybernetics of population control / Hudson Hoagland
- A naturalist looks at overpopulation / Joseph Wood Krutch
- Research which may affect human fertility
- The promise of research / John Rock
- New contraceptives / Ritchie Calder
- Sex determination and other innovations / Richard L. Meier
- Freedom or control in reproduction
- Knowledge and responsibility / James Alfred Field
- Birth control and coercion / W.V. D'Antonio
- Concerning equilibrium in human population / Richard L. Meier
- Patterns of the future / Harrison Brown
- Is freedom too great a burden?
- The grand inquisitor / Feodor Dostoievsky
- Freedom and the nature of man / Rene Dubos.