Luiz Cunha, “international but brief” [and pop!]

Tony J. Cunha, 1916-1992: a brief biography.

International Brief

(Single years of age) Millions 0 1.60 While recent Russian demographic trends reflect the country's current economic and social malaise, they also continue to reveal the shocks experienced by Russia's population earlier in this century. Russia's fertility has been falling sharply since the breakup of the USSR: Russia's 1993 total fertility rate (TFR) of 1.4 ranks among the lowest in Europe. Des...

International Brief

The typical image of caregiving and the elderly is one of an older person who is ill or infirm receiving care from a younger person. In many instances this image is correct. However, older women and men are not only the recipients of care; in many cases they are caregivers themselves. Another assumption about caregiving is that the person giving the care is a woman. Again, this is generally tru...

International Brief Mortality and Health

In particular, countries need to plan for the health needs of older women. Although the elderly are as diverse demographically, socially, and economically as the nonelderly, one notable difference between these broad groups is the relative number of men and women. While boys outnumber girls in all countries, gender differences in mortality eventually produce a changing sex balance within a popu...

Luiz Fernando Dias

A concise but broad-based review is presented of the circulation of knowledge and practices from psychoanalysis in the social sciences, especially anthropology. The different contexts in which the concepts and conceptions of psychoanalysis have been read, refuted, or appropriated by different national schools of thought and intellectual traditions and the ways psychoanalysis itself has interact...