Death at the Opposite Ends of the Eurasian Continent

by Engelen, Theo; Shepherd, John R.; Wen-shan, Yang

• ISBN13: 9789052603797
• ISBN10: 9052603790
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-02-29
• Publisher: Amsterdam Univ Pr

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Introduction: Death at the opposite ends of the Eurasian continent: Mortality trends in Taiwan and the Netherlands, 1850-1945	p. 7
Trends in mortality and the evolution of the cause-of-death pattern in the Netherlands: 1850-2000	p. 17
Trends in mortality and causes of death in Japanese colonial period Taiwan	p. 45
Mortality in the Netherlands: general development and regional differences	p. 81
Regional and ethnic variation in mortality in Japanese colonial period Taiwan	p. 99
An outline of socio-medical care in the Netherlands, 19th and early 20th centuries	p. 153
An overview of public health development in Japan-ruled Taiwan	p. 165
The demographic history of smallpox in the Netherlands, 18th -19th centuries	p. 183
Anti-malaria policy in colonial Taiwan	p. 203
Maternal mortality in Taiwan and the Netherlands, 1850-1945	p. 229
Maternal depletion and infant mortality	p. 275
The massacre of the innocents: Infant mortality in Lugang (Taiwan) and Nijmegen (the Netherlands)	p. 289
Illegitimacy, adoption, and mortality among girls in Penghu, 1906-1945	p. 317
How reliable is Taiwan's colonial period demographic data?: An empirical study using demographic indirect estimation techniques	p. 349
References	p. 377
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