Demographic trends: social context, individual experience and sexual health
Marloes Schoonheim
Dr. Marloes (Luce) Schoonheim
Dr. Marloes (Luce) Schoonheim is a demographic historian living near Geneva in Switzerland.
Born and raised in the Netherlands, Schoonheim studied history in Leiden and graduated with honors in 2000. She lectured at Nijmegen University and won the Dr. I.B.M. Frye Stipend for promising researchers in 2002. In 2005 Schoonheim received a Ph D for her thesis Mixing ovaries and rosaries: Catholic religion and reproduction in the Netherlands, 1870-1970. She worked as a post-doctoral researcher at Stanford University in the USA and, for nearly three years, at the Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan. Schoonheim’s publications mainly concern demographic and social-economic history. From 2008 to 2010, she studied digital media at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Montpellier, France.
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Selected publications
- Religion and fertility at the extremes: the Netherlands and Taiwan, 1950-1985 (with Marloes Hülsken). History of the Family 16 (2011) 267–277.
- Mortality in the Netherlands: general development and regional differences (with Theo Engelen). Theo Engelen, John R. Shepherd & Wen Shan Yang ed.,Death at the opposite ends of the Eurasian continent: Mortality trends in Taiwan and the Netherlands 1850-1945 p. 81-99. Amsterdam: Aksant 2011.
- Maternal mortality in Taiwan and the Netherlands, 1850-1945 (with John Shepherd, Chang Tian-Yun and Jan Kok). Theo Engelen, John R. Shepherd & Wen Shan Yang ed., Death at the opposite ends of the Eurasian continent: Mortality trends in Taiwan and the Netherlands 1850-1945 p. 229-275. Amsterdam: Aksant 2011.
- Minority group status and fertility: the case of the “foreign brides” in Taiwan (with Wen Shan Yang). Wen-Shan Yang and Melody Lu ed., Asian Cross-border Marriage Migration: Demographic Patterns and Social Issues. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press 2010. p. 103-127.
- Demographic findings on women’s fertility, mortality, and nuptiality historically around the world. Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History. New York: Oxford University Press 2008.
- The ethnography of reproduction: Taiwan and the Netherlands (with Hill Gates). Ying Chang Chuang, Theo Engelen, and Arthur P. Wolf ed., Positive or Preventive? Reproduction in Taiwan and the Netherlands, 1850-1940. Amsterdam: Aksant 2006 p. 53-81.
- Measuring cultural differences between religions using network data; an example based on nineteenth-century Dutch marriage certificates (with Frans van Poppel). Annales de Démographie Historique 42(1) 2006 p. 173-197.
- Mixing Ovaries and Rosaries: Catholic Religion and Reproduction in the Netherlands, 1870 – 1970. Amsterdam: Aksant 2005.
Online documents
The evidence-based management of pre-eclampsia and eclampsia - University of Oxford
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