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	Political Demography Political Science 355 Spring 1997
	Prospectus This course examines the interaction between states and populations. States are concerned with the natality, morbidity and mortality of their population while patterns of natality, morbidity and mortality reveal latent issues in states and societies. Our focus will be on crises in macro-public policy decision-making, particularly cholera epidemics, famines, and the AIDS epidemics. Our approach will be comparative in two senses. We will be comparing public policy decision-making across time in a single state (a longitudinal analysis) as well across space (correlational analysis). Our approach will also be conceptual. The course will survey a wide variety of conceptual approaches to the study of political demography. We will be asking what sorts of approaches are used to study, say, cholera and ask to what extent these approaches can be used fruitfully in examining other areas, such as famines or AIDS. Our approach will also require significant historical understanding. The reading load is extensive, although every effort will be made to find the most efficient way of covering material. I will subdivide books between individuals and ask for oral presentations in class. I will occasionally lecture, when the material demands it. Requirements I expect faithful attendance and thoughtful participation. Class presentations on the reading will be a regular feature of the course.The course has two papers of about 10 pages in length. Both papers will be comparative, and specific instructions will be distributed later. Emphasis will be placed on excellence in drafting, outlining and researching - not merely the final product. This course will emphasize mastery of research skills for writing good papers. I expect regular use of my office hours. In order to cover the material well and quickly and without great burden anyone, I will assign different chapters of a text to different students to present in class. You will have about ten minutes to present the main points in your assigned reading. Some Pointers for your Outlines Here are some things that may make writing your outlines easier. 1. Follow the natural breaks of the text. If for example a chapter section ends with a brief space and then a new paragraph begins, ask: what does this transition indicate? 2. Learn from the categories you see developing in other outlines. Develop categories of your own around which to entitle the material. 3. Identify the main claims of the chapter. How does the chapter prove this claim? 4. Consider the purpose of the chapter in the book. Sometimes looking at the table of contents or skimmng the introduction tells you something about what is important here for the author. 5. If the same point is made at different points in the chapter, don't repeat it. Simply note the different pages it appears the first time you mention it in your outline. Cholera Epidemics and the State This covers a variety of different approaches to the study of disease and history. It covers a variety of states (absolutist, democratic, colonial) and their responses to a major epidemic. It presents information on the early formation of the welfare state as well as the interaction between Europe and the rest of the world. It serves as a backdrop for considering later epidemics such as AIDS. Other Material on Cholera and Related Issues Arnold, D. "Cholera in India" Past and Present (1986) Arnold, D. "Plague and Politics in India" in Selected Subaltern Studies ed. David Arnold Bilson, Geoffrey., A Darkened House: Cholera in Nineteenth Century Canada (1980) Cooper, D. Epidemic Disease in Mexico City 1761-1813 (1965) Cooper, D., "The New Black Death: Cholera in Brazil 1855-1856" Social Science History (1986) Delaporte, Disease and Civilization: The Cholera in Paris 1832 Dubos and Dubos. The White Plague: Tuberculosis, Man and Society (1987) Dummet, R. "The Campaign Against Malaria and the Expansion of Scientific, Medical and Sanitary Services in British West Africa 1898-1910" African Historical Studies (1968) Durey, The Return of the Plague: British Society and the Cholera 1831-1832 Ellis, Jack. The Physician-Legislators of France: Medicine and Politics in the Early Third Republic, 1870-1914 (1990) Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1844) Evans, Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years 1830-1910 Hardy, Anne. The Epidemic Streets; Infecitous Disease and the Rise of Preventive Medicine 1856-1900 (1993) Gallagher, Nancy, Egypt's Other Wars: Epidemics and the Politics of Public Health (1990) Gallagher, Nancy, Medicine and Power in Tunisia 1780-1900 (1983) Hartwig, Gerald. "Social Consequences of Epidemic Diseases: The Nineteenth Century in Eastern Africa." in Disease in African History, ed. Hartwig and Patterson (1978) Hutchinson, C.A. "The Asiatic Cholera Epidemic of 1833 in Mexico" Bulletin of the History of Medicine (1958). Ileto, Reynaldo. "Cholera and the Origins of the American Sanitary Order in the Philippines, in Imperial Medicine and Indigenous Societies, ed. David Arnold (1989) Kiple, K. "Cholera and Race in the Caribbean" Journal of Latin American Studies (1985) Kudlick, Catherine. Cholera in Post-Revolutionary Paris: A Cultural History (1996) Lyons, Martinyez, The Colonial Disease: A Social History of Sleeping Sickness in Northern Zaire 1900-1940 (1992) McGrew, Roderick. Russia and the Cholera 1823-1832 (1965) Morris, R. Cholera 1832: The Social Response to an Epidemic (1976) Paul, Jim. "Medicine and Imperialism in Morocco" MERIP Reports (1977) Packard, Randall. White Plague, Black Labor: Tuberculosis and the Political Economy of Health and Disease in South Africa (1989) Pelling, Margaret. Cholera, Fever and English Medicine 1825-1865 (1978) Rosenberg, Charles. Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866 (1962) Savitt, T. and Numbers, R. eds. Science and Medicine in the Old South (1989) Savitt, T. and Young, J.H. eds. Disease and Distinctiveness in the American South (1988) Savitt, Todd. Medicine and Slavery: Disease and Health Care of Blacks in Antebellum Virginia (1978) Schultheiss, E. and Tardy, L. "Short History of Epidemics in Hungary until the Great Cholera Epidemic of 1831" Centaurus (1966) Snowden, Frank. Naples in Time of Cholera, 1884 -1911 (1995) Spitzer, Leo, "The Mosquito and Segregation in Sierra Leone" Le Journal Canadien des Etudes Africaines (1986) Stock, Robert F. Cholera in Africa: Diffusion of the Disease 1970-1975 (1976) Famine Politics What causes famines? What happens during famines? To whom? How and when do states respond? Why? What are the effects of famines? In this section, we will cover different explanations of famine and their implications for public policy. We will be examining specific famines, but also examining the politics of food more generally. We will also be asking about the interrelationship between famine and other factors, most notably, population growth and epidemics. We will also be comparing how researchers approach famines with how they approach epidemics. What are the similarities and differences in the ways they see populations and states interacting? I.A. Susan George, How the Other Half Dies I.B. David Arnold. Famine II.A. Rotberg and Rabb, Hunger and History II.B. Rotberg and Rabb, Hunger and History III.A.Sen, Poverty and Famines III.B. Sen, Poverty and Famines IV. A. Dreze and Sen, Hunger and Public Action (selections) IV. B. Dreze and Sen, Political Economy of Hunger (Selections) Famine and Related Material Alamagir, M. Famine in South Asia: The Political Economy of Mass Starvation (1980) Arnold, D. "Famine in Peasant Consciousness and Peasant Action: Madras 1876-78" in Selected Subaltern Studies III (1984) Ball, N. "Understanding the Causes of African Famine" Journal of Modern African History (1976) Boserup, E. The Conditions of Economic Growth under Population Pressure (1965) Boserup, E. Women's Role in Economic Development (1970) Dirks, R. "Social Responses during Severe Food Shortages and Famine" Current Anthropology (1980) Grigg, D. The World Food Problem, 1950-1980 (1985) Moore-Lappe, F. and Collins, J. Food First: Beyond the Myth of Scarcity (1977) Ogbu, J. "Seasonal Hunger in Africa as a Cultural Phenomenon" Africa (1973) Popkin, S. The Rational Peasant (1978) Scott, J. The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia (1976) Seavoy, R. Famine in Peasant Societies (1986) Shapiro, T. Population Control Politics: Women, Sterilization and Reproductive Choice (1985) Simon, The Ultimate Resource (1981) Thompson, E.P. "The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century" Past and Present (1971) Tilly, C. "Food Supply and Public Order in Modern Europe" in The Formation of National States in Western Europe ed. C. Tilly (1975) Tilly, L. "The Food Riot as a Form of Political Conflict in France" Journal of Interdisciplinary History (1971) Vaughan, M. The Story of an African Famine: Gender and Famine in Twentieth Century Malawi (1987) Walter, S. and Wrightson, K. "Dearth and Social Order in Early Modern England" Past and Present (1976) Aids Politics AIDS politics is a very broad topic and we can only hope to cover a fraction of the current literature. Why does the AIDS epidemic take different forms in different countries? What accounts for the different responses among industrialized countries? We will examine different explanations of the AIDS epidemic, considering what it shares with cholera and famine. We will also examine how researchers have approached the epidemic and the kinds of approaches they bring to bear on the study of AIDS politics. What are the strengths and weaknesses of these approaches? Can we learn anything from how researchers have approached famine and cholera? Perrow and Guillien, The Aids Disaster Kirp and Bayer, AIDS in the Industrialized Democracies Lewis, AIDS in Developing Countries Barnett, AIDS in Africa Mann et al, AIDS in the World (I) Mann et al, AIDS in the World (II) Misztal and Moss, Action on AIDS Patton, Cindy Inventing AIDS Patton, Cindy Sex and Germs Supplementary Material The material on AIDS grows monthly. The books provided here have excellent bibliographies, but you may wish to consult Books in Print (The Subject Index) to see what is currently available. Reed collects many government documents relating to AIDS. The House of Representatives in particular receives reports on AIDS internationally and nationally, many of which are listed in Tomus. The Cascades AIDS Project possesses a huge data base to which student can have access. In addition, there are many journals devoted entirely to AIDS, many of which are available at OHSU (Oregon Health Sciences University). Here are some recent bibliographies and books on AIDS covering a wide variety of issues: Sarah Barbara Watstein & Robert Anthony Laurich, eds. AIDS and Women : a Sourcebook H. Robert Malinowsky and Gerald J. Perry. AIDS Information Sourcebook John Christensen, Aids and Public Policy: A Selective Bibliography of References Rama Rao, AIDS in Asia, Africa & the US: Bibliography Elizabeth Fee and Daniel Fox eds, Aids: The Making of a Chronic Disease Randy Shilts, And the Band Played On: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic John Gagnon, "Disease and Desire" Daedalus 118 (1989) 47-77. Sandra Panem, The AIDS Bureaucracy Philip Kayal, Bearing Witness: Gay Men's Health Crisis and the politics of AIDS Florence Schwarz, Voluntarism and Social Work Practice John Harman, Volunteerism in the Eighties Douglas Crimp, Aids: Cultural Analysis, Cultural Activism Maureen Lewis, Aids in Developing Countries: Cost Issues and Policy Tradeoffs Daniel Fox and Emily Thomas eds.,Financing Care for Persons with AIDS: The First Studies 1985-1988 Gerald Stine, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome: Biological, Medical, Social and Legal Issues Frederic Reamer, ed. Aids and Ethics Barbara Misztal and David Moss eds., Action on AIDS: National Policies in Comparative Perspective Marlene C. McGuirl and Robert N. Gee, "AIDS: An Overview of the British, Australian and American Responses," Hofstra Law Review 14:1 (1985): 107-135. Daniel M. Fox, Patricia Day, and Rudolf Klein, "The Power of Professionalism: Policies for AIDS in Britain, Sweden and the USA," Daedalus 118: 2 (1989): 93-111 Jerry Durham and Felissa Cohen, eds. The Person with AIDS: Nursing Perspectives Olufemi Williams, Aids: An African Perspective Paul Farmer and Arthur Kleinman, "Aids as Human Suffering," Daedalus 112:2 (1989) 135-160. Emmanuel Dreuilhe, Mortal Embrace: Living with AIDS