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Pushing back the frontiers of death / [John C. Caldwell].
- Title
- Pushing back the frontiers of death / [John C. Caldwell].
- Author
- Caldwell, John C. (John Charles)
- Publication
- Canberra : Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, 1999.
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- Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
- Description
- 19 p.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- The most persistent imagery in literature, particularly in poetry, is human frailty, especially the inevitability of death. 'Mortals' is a term used to designate the human race. Demography, which focuses on the major events of our existence - birth, marriage, parenthood and death - has long been interested in measuring the force of mortality and in explaining its change. The fact of the mortality decline is irrefutable. What is controversial is why it occurred. This lecture will draw upon research into the nature of the contemporary Third World mortality decline in order to throw light on the earlier Western decline.
- Series Statement
- Occasional paper series, 3/1999
- Cunningham lecture ; 1999
- Uniform Title
- Cunningham lecture ; 1999.
- Occasional paper series (Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia) 1999/3.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 15-19).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- LCCN
- ^^2002391005
- OCLC
- 44896146
- SCSB-10783668
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library