Healing the Nation : : Prisoners of War, Medicine and Nationalism in Turkey, 1914-1939 / / Yucel Yanikdag.

Explores how the Great War influenced the construction of identity and nationalism in the Ottoman Empire Yucel Yanikdag explores how, during the Great War, Ottoman prisoners of war and military doctors discursively constructed their nation as a community, and at the same time attempted to exclude ce...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2013
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.) :; 13 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Author's note on usage
  • List of maps and figures
  • List of tables
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Ottoman Great War And Captivity In Russia And Egypt
  • 2. Imagining Community And Identity In Russia And Egypt: A Comparison
  • 3. Saviour Sons Of The Nation: Inside The Prisoners' Minds
  • 4. Prisoners As Disease Carriers: Cases Of Pellagra And Trachoma
  • 5. War Neuroses And Prisoners Of War: Wartime Nervous Breakdown And The Politics Of Medical Interpretation
  • 6. Degenerationist Pathway To Eugenics: Neuropsychiatry, Social Pathology And Anxieties Over National Health
  • Epilogue The Search For A Useable Past: Prisoners Of War, The Ottoman Great War And Turkish Nationalism
  • Bibliography
  • Index