BIOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY OF FERTILITY. CONTINENTAL REACTION TO THE MALTHUSIAN THREAT IN POST-DARWINIAN SOCIETY
Chapter
Publication Date:
2000
Short description:
BIOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY OF FERTILITY. CONTINENTAL REACTION TO THE MALTHUSIAN THREAT IN POST-DARWINIAN SOCIETY / La Vergata, A. - In: MALTHUS, MEDICINE AND MORALITY: MALTHUSIANISM AFTER 1798 / B. DOLAN, ed.. - STAMPA. - AMSTERDAM : Rodopi, 2000. - ISBN 9789042008519. - pp. 189-221
abstract:
A reconstruction of post-Malthusian debates on population, birth control and theories of fertility. The articles also explores the 'providentialist-naturalist' version of anti-Malthusianism as extended into the socialist tradition (from utopian socialists to positivist socialists influenced by Spencer) drawing examples from France, Germany and Italy.
Iris type:
Capitolo/Saggio
Keywords:
Malthus; population; fertility; evolutionism; birth control
List of contributors:
La Vergata, Antonello
Book title:
MALTHUS, MEDICINE AND MORALITY: MALTHUSIANISM AFTER 1798