Background
Abernethy, Virginia Deane was born on October 4, 1934 in Havana, Cuba. Daughter of Bernard Charles and Helen Adele (Arnold) Deane.
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International efforts to regulate fertility rates so that populations do not grow beyond the earth's capacity have included technical assistance and capital; improved health care conditions to lower the risk of infant mortality; increased opportunities to develop literacy; the democratization of governments; and several decades of liberal immigration and refugee policies favoring third world nations. The persistence of high fertility despite international efforts confounds demographers. Population Politics brilliantly dissects the paradigm responsible for the counterproductive efforts of nations and international agencies. Abernethy, a renowned anthropologist, shows why policies hamper the shift to lower fertility. Ireland, Indonesia, Cuba, China, Turkey and Egypt are but a few of the countries Abernethy examines, showing how economic, sociocultural, and agricultural factors that have caused population growth can be harnessed to stabilize population size. Population Politics is a provocative examination of the influence of aid and liberal immigration policies on world population growth, and often counterproductive to the role of the United States as an industrial power. This volume's uniquely interdisciplinary perspective will enlighten the lay reader, as well as demographers and epidemiologists, conservationists, reproduction and family specialists, agricultural economists, and public health personnel. Virginia D. Abernethy is professor emeritus of psychiatry (anthropology) at Vanderbilt Medical School and was for 11 years the editor of the scholarly journal Population and Environment. Garrett Hardin is emeritus professor of human ecology in the Department of Biological Sciences and the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Population and environment educator
Abernethy, Virginia Deane was born on October 4, 1934 in Havana, Cuba. Daughter of Bernard Charles and Helen Adele (Arnold) Deane.
Bachelor, Wellesley (Massachusetts) College, 1955; Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1970; Master of Business Administration, Vanderbilt University, 1981.
Research associate, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 1971-1972; associate in psychiatry (anthropology), Harvard Medical School, Boston, 1972-1975; assistant professor, Vanderbilt University School Medicine, Nashville, 1975-1976; associate professor, Vanderbilt University School Medicine, Nashville, 1976-1980; professor psychiatry (anthropology), Vanderbilt University School Medicine, Nashville, 1980-1998; professor emeritus, Vanderbilt University School Medicine, Nashville, since 1998. Director studies in population and family Harvard Medical School, 1972-1975, director medical ethics symposium Vanderbilt Medical School, Nashville, 1979, director health care resources symposium, 1984. Fellow Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies, Nashville, since 1985.
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Board of directors Carrying Capacity Network, Washington, since 1989, Fossil Fuels Policy Action Institute, Arcata, California, 1989-1994. Chairman of the Board Population-Environmental Balance, Washington, since 1988. Advisory board chair Murphy School for Pregnant Teenagers, Nashville, 1976-1979.
Fellow American Anthropology Association. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, Sigma Xi (Executive Committee Vanderbilt chapter 1986).
Married John Benjamin Kendrick II, 1955 (divorced). Children: Hugh C., Jack B. III, Helen D. Kendrick Campbell, Diana C. Kendrick Untermeyer. Married C. Gregory Smith, Junior, December 24, 1980.