Death at the Opposite Ends of the Eurasian Continent: Mortality Trends in Taiwan and the Netherlands 1850-1945

book: Death at the Opposite Ends of the Eurasian Continent

Open Access Published by Amsterdam University Press 2011

Death at the Opposite Ends of the Eurasian Continent

Mortality Trends in Taiwan and the Netherlands 1850-1945

Edited by: Theo Engelen , John R. Shephard and Yang Wen-shan

Volume 4 in the series Life at the Extremes

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048514687

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This volume examines contrasting historical demographics in Western Europe and Asia, taking the Netherlands and Taiwan as representative populations. Both countries have witnessed steady, continuous improvements in public health, disease prevention, and medical care. The contributors compare the impact of disease and mortality on the lives of individuals and families under very different cultural and social conditions. Death at the Opposite Ends of the Eurasian Continent analyzes a variety of factors, including maternal and infant mortality, as well as the accuracy of Taiwan’s censuses and death reporting.

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Theo Engelen is professor of historical demography at Radboud University Nijmegen. John R. Shepherd is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Virginia. Wen-Shan Yang is program director in historical demography at the Academia Sinica in Taiwan.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	4
Introduction: Death at the opposite ends of the Eurasian continent Mortality trends in Taiwan and the Netherlands, 1850-1945 Theo Engelen and John R. Shepherd Open Access Download PDF	7
1. Trends in mortality and the evolution of the cause-of-death pattern in the Netherlands: 1850-2000 Frans van Poppel Open Access Download PDF	17
2. Trends in mortality and causes of death in Japanese colonial period Taiwan John R. Shepherd Open Access Download PDF	45
3. Mortality in the Netherlands: general development and regional differences Theo Engelen and Marloes Schoonheim Open Access Download PDF	81
4. Regional and ethnic variation in mortality in Japanese colonial period Taiwan John R. Shepherd Open Access Download PDF	99
5. An outline of socio-medical care in the Netherlands, 19th and early 20th centuries Willibrord Rutten Open Access Download PDF	153
6. An overview of public health development in Japan-ruled Taiwan Liu Shi-yung Open Access Download PDF	165
7. The demographic history of smallpox in the Netherlands, 18th–19th centuries Willibrord Rutten Open Access Download PDF	183
8. Anti-malaria policy in colonial Taiwan Ku Ya-wen Open Access Download PDF	203
9. Maternal mortality in Taiwan and the Netherlands, 1850-1945 John R. Shepherd, Marloes Schoonheim, Chang Tian-yun and Jan Kok Open Access Download PDF	229
10. Maternal depletion and infant mortality Theo Engelen and Arthur P. Wolf Open Access Download PDF	275
11. The massacre of the innocents Infant mortality in Lugang (Taiwan) and Nijmegen (the Netherlands) Theo Engelen and Hsieh Ying-hui Open Access Download PDF	289
12. Illegitimacy, adoption, and mortality among girls in Penghu, 1906-1945 Yu Guang-hong, Huang Yu-lin and Chuu Ling-in Open Access Download PDF	317
13. How reliable is Taiwan’s colonial period demographic data? Li Chun-hao, Yang Wen-shan and Chuang Ying-chang Open Access Download PDF	349
References Open Access Download PDF	377

Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 400

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Published: July 15, 2012
ISBN: 9789048514687