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Sex and death: old cliché, new reality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2002

GIGI SANTOW
GIGI SANTOW
Affiliation:
Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Meijboomlaan 1, 2242 PR Wassenaar, The Netherlands
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Abstract

Demographers have traditionally been preoccupied with human reproduction and mortality, and with the links, at different levels of aggregation, between the two. Today, when in some regions of the world sexual intercourse carries with it the risk not just of pregnancy but of fatal infection with the human immunodeficiency virus, that traditional preoccupation acquires a special urgency.

Type
Research Article
Information
European Review , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , October 2002 , pp. 501 - 512
Copyright
© Academia Europaea 2002

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Footnotes

Heath Clark lecture, 31 October 2001, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.