Robert G Burnight
Biographic Data
| ID | 249181 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert G Burnight |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert G |
| FAMILY NAME | Burnight |
| SIGNATURE | BURNIGHT R G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mahidol University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1951 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Attitudes of Rural Thai Women Towards Induced Abortion
Questions concerning their attitudes towards induced abortion in six different circumstances were asked of 1254 rural Thai married women, aged 15–44, in a 1972 nationwide fertility survey. A positive response was given to one or more of the questions by nearly three-fifths of the women; the largest proportion of positive responses (42·0%) was given by women if the pregnancy resulted from rape, and 40·1 % responded affirmatively if the pregnancy m…
Male sterilization in Thailand
A retrospective study of 185 Thai males who had been vasectomized at Ramathibodi Hospital, Bangkok, between January 1970 and March 1973 was conducted during the period May–July 1973. At the time of the vasectomy the mean age of the men was 33·5 years and the mean age of their wives was 29·9 years; they had a mean of 3·7 living children. The motivation for seeking a permanent method of fertility control was a combination of adverse economic pressu…
Selected Studies of Migration Since World War II
Social Characteristics of Urban and Rural Communities, 1950
Differential Rural-Urban Fertility in Mexico
HAT rural populations are more fertile than urban is one of the most widelyobserved phenomena in the field of human fertility.' Most of the data on this subject have been collected in the industrialized countries of the West, but some evidence exists that this relationship is widespread among underdeveloped countries as well.2 Whetten's study, published in 1948, included data showing that the fertility of Mexican women was much lower in cities ha…
Group Centrism in Complex Societies
Contact with more than a single culture may produce one of three attitudes: the familiar ethnocentric view in which one's own culture is preferred; a xenocentric view in which a culture other than one's own is preferred, the reverse of the first; and cultural relativism, wherein each culture is evaluated in terms of its own circumstances and values
Differential Rural-Urban Fertility in Mexico
HAT rural populations are more fertile than urban is one of the most widelyobserved phenomena in the field of human fertility.' Most of the data on this subject have been collected in the industrialized countries of the West, but some evidence exists that this relationship is widespread among underdeveloped countries as well.2 Whetten's study, published in 1948, included data showing that the fertility of Mexican women was much lower in cities ha…
Group Centrism in Complex Societies
Contact with more than a single culture may produce one of three attitudes: the familiar ethnocentric view in which one's own culture is preferred; a xenocentric view in which a culture other than one's own is preferred, the reverse of the first; and cultural relativism, wherein each culture is evaluated in terms of its own circumstances and values
Group Centrism in Complex Societies
Contact with more than a single culture may produce one of three attitudes: the familiar ethnocentric view in which one's own culture is preferred; a xenocentric view in which a culture other than one's own is preferred, the reverse of the first; and cultural relativism, wherein each culture is evaluated in terms of its own circumstances and values
Differential Rural-Urban Fertility in Mexico
HAT rural populations are more fertile than urban is one of the most widelyobserved phenomena in the field of human fertility.' Most of the data on this subject have been collected in the industrialized countries of the West, but some evidence exists that this relationship is widespread among underdeveloped countries as well.2 Whetten's study, published in 1948, included data showing that the fertility of Mexican women was much lower in cities ha…
Social Characteristics of Urban and Rural Communities, 1950
Selected Studies of Migration Since World War II
Male sterilization in Thailand
A retrospective study of 185 Thai males who had been vasectomized at Ramathibodi Hospital, Bangkok, between January 1970 and March 1973 was conducted during the period May–July 1973. At the time of the vasectomy the mean age of the men was 33·5 years and the mean age of their wives was 29·9 years; they had a mean of 3·7 living children. The motivation for seeking a permanent method of fertility control was a combination of adverse economic pressu…
Attitudes of Rural Thai Women Towards Induced Abortion
Questions concerning their attitudes towards induced abortion in six different circumstances were asked of 1254 rural Thai married women, aged 15–44, in a 1972 nationwide fertility survey. A positive response was given to one or more of the questions by nearly three-fifths of the women; the largest proportion of positive responses (42·0%) was given by women if the pregnancy resulted from rape, and 40·1 % responded affirmatively if the pregnancy m…
Sociology (4 works) · Demography (3 works) · Fertility (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Population (3 works) · Socioeconomics (3 works) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (2 works) · Family planning (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Medicine (2 works)