Death at the Opposite Ends of the Eurasian Continent

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.

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 1. Trends in mortality and the evolution of the cause-of-death pattern in the Netherlands: 1850-2000 Frans van Poppel 2. Trends in mortality and causes of death in Japanese colonial period Taiwan John R. Shepherd 3. Mortality in the Netherlands: general development and regional differences Theo Engelena nd Marloes Schoonheim 4. Regional and ethnic variation in mortality in Japanese colonial period Taiwan John R. Shepherd 5. An outline of socio-medical care in the Netherlands, 19th and early 20th centuries Willibrord Rutten 6. An overview of public health development in Japan-ruled Taiwan Liu Shi-yung 7. The demographic history of smallpox in the Netherlands, 18th-19th centuries Willibrord Rutten 8. Anti-malaria policy in colonial Taiwan Ku Ya-wen 9. Maternal mortality in Taiwan and the Netherlands, 1850-1945 John R. Shepherd, Marloes Schoonheim, Chang Tian-yun and Jak Kok 10. Maternal depletion and infant mortality Theo Engelen and Arthur P. Wolf 11. The massacre of the innocents: Infant mortality in Lugang (Taiwan) and Nijmegen (the Netherlands) Theo Engelen and Hsieh Ying-hui 12. Illegitimacy, adoption, and mortality among girls in Penghu, 1906-1945 Yu Guang-hong, Huang Yu-lin and Chuu Ling-in 13. How reliable is Taiwan's colonial period demographic data? An empirical study using demographic indirect estimation techniques Li Chun-hao, Yang Wen-shan and Chuang Ying-chang References