Lottery of birth
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  • Introduction
    • Big picture, small picture
    • An interdisciplinary issue
  • Introduction
  • 1 The world’s 7 billionth baby
  • 2 Thinking point: check your privilege
  • 3 Poverty
  • 4 Being born rich, being born poor
    • 4.1 Global income inequality
    • 4.2 Health inequalities and their causes
    • 4.3 Lives on the line
    • 4.4 Educational inequalities
  • 5 Measuring inequality
  • 6 Social mobility
    • 6.1 Social mobility – growing or shrinking?
  • 7 Is it fair?
    • 7.1 The spirit level
    • 7.2 Thinking point: the spirit level hypothesis
  • 8 The global picture
  • 9 Summary of Week 1
  • Introduction
  • 1 A history of European childbirth through art
  • 2 Maternal and infant mortality today
    • 2.1 Maternal and infant mortality
    • 2.2 State of the world’s mothers
    • 2.3 Kangaroo mother care
  • 3 What choices do individuals have?
  • 4 Over population, under population
    • 4.1 Don’t panic: the truth about population
    • 4.2 Thinking point: optimism or pessimism
  • 5 Reproductive choices
    • 5.1 Parents with disabilities
    • 5.2 Choices about parenthood
    • 5.3 Contraception and abortion worldwide
    • 5.4 Thinking point: Abortion rights and responsibilities
  • 6 Pro-natalism and anti-natalism
    • 6.1 Anti-natalist policies
    • 6.2 The missing girls
    • 6.3 Childbirth - a new kind of risk?
    • 6.4 Pro-natalist support for parents and babies
    • 6.5 Thinking point: State support where you live
  • 7 Getting a ‘good parent’ in the lottery of birth
  • 8 Summary of Week 2
  • Introduction
  • 1 Is global inequality rising or falling?
    • 1.1 Sustainable development goals
    • 1.2 A ‘passport to protection’
    • 1.3 230 million invisible children
    • 1.4 Thinking point: Activism
  • 2 Changing lives of girls and women
    • 2.1 The changing lives of girls
    • 2.2 The unchanging lives of girls
    • 2.3 What is FGM?
    • 2.4 Challenging FGM
    • 2.5 Thinking point: Social media campaigning
  • 3 One woman’s lifetime
    • 3.1 ‘It’s a girl!’
  • 4 Summary of Week 3
  • Introduction
  • 1 An unequal world
  • 2 Over population or under population
    • 2.1 Population policies
  • 3 A good time to be born?
  • 4 Thinking point: the inequality debate
  • 5 Looking into the future
  • 6 Summary of Week 4
  • References
  • Acknowledgements

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