Death at the opposite ends of the Eurasian continent : mortality trends in Taiwan and the Netherlands, 1850-1945 / edited by Theo Engelen, John R. Shepherd, Yang Wen-shan.

Historical demographers since Malthus have characterized the West-European and Chinese demographic regimes as systems under low and high pressure, respectively. This volume examines the operation of the positive check at the two ends of the Eurasian continent by taking the Netherlands and Taiwan as...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Other Authors: Engelen, Th. (Theo) (Editor), Shepherd, John Robert (Editor), Yang, Wen-Shan (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Aksant, 2011.
Series:Life at the extremes ; v. 4.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction; 1 Trends in mortality and the evolution of the cause-of-death pattern in the Netherlands: 1850-20001; 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 inmortality 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 Taiwan9 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? An empirical study using demographic indirect estimation techniques; References