Death at the Opposite Ends of the Eurasian Continent : : Mortality Trends in Taiwan and the Netherlands 1850-1945 / / ed. by Theo Engelen, Yang Wen-shan, John R. Shephard.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package Backfile 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Chun-hao, Li,; Engelen, Theo,; Guang-hong, Yu,; Kok, Jan,; Ling-in, Chuu,; Poppel, Frans van,; Rutten, Willibrord,; Schoonheim, Marloes,; Shepherd, John R.,; Shi-yung, Liu,; Tian-yun, Chang,; Wen-shan, Yang,; Wolf, Arthur P.,; Ya-wen, Ku,; Ying-chang, Chuang,; Ying-hui, Hsieh,; Yu-lin, Huang,
• HerausgeberIn: Engelen, Theo,; Shephard, John R.,; Wen-shan, Yang,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2012]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Life at the Extremes ; 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Death at the opposite ends of the Eurasian continent Mortality trends in Taiwan and the Netherlands, 1850-1945 -- 1. Trends in mortality and the evolution of the cause-of-death pattern in the Netherlands: 1850-2000 -- 2. Trends in mortality and causes of death in Japanese colonial period Taiwan -- 3. Mortality in the Netherlands: general development and regional differences -- 4. Regional and ethnic variation in mortality in Japanese colonial period Taiwan -- 5. An outline of socio-medical care in the Netherlands, 19th and early 20th centuries -- 6. An overview of public health development in Japan-ruled Taiwan -- 7. The demographic history of smallpox in the Netherlands, 18th-19th centuries -- 8. Anti-malaria policy in colonial Taiwan -- 9. Maternal mortality in Taiwan and the Netherlands, 1850-1945 -- 10. Maternal depletion and infant mortality -- 11. The massacre of the innocents Infant mortality in Lugang (Taiwan) and Nijmegen (the Netherlands) -- 12. Illegitimacy, adoption, and mortality among girls in Penghu, 1906-1945 -- 13. How reliable is Taiwan's colonial period demographic data? -- References