The social construction of population science: An intellectual, institutional, and political history of twentieth-century demography

Comparative Studies in Society and History

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 26-66

  Greenhalgh, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DEMOGRAPHIC STUDY; DISCIPLINARY DEVELOPMENT; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EID: 0029837550     PISSN: 00104175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0010417500020119     Document Type: Article

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