From the Midwife's Bag to the Patient's File : : Public Health in Eastern and Southeastern Europe / / ed. by Friederike Kind-Kovács, Heike Karge, Sara Bernasconi.
This volume offers an analysis of the intertwined relationship between public health and the biopolitical dimensions of state- and nation building in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. It challenges the idea of diverging paths towards modernity of Europe’s western and eastern countries by not...
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Place / Publishing House: | Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
Series: | CEU Press Studies in the History of Medicine
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (358 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. From the Midwife’s Bag to the Patient’s File: Public Health in Eastern Europe
- I. Medical Agents and Modern State Building
- I. Moving Backward Toward Modernity: The Role of the Medical Council in the Organization of Public Health in Greece, 1834–1924
- II. Creating the “Railway Population”: Public Health and Statistics in Late Imperial Russia
- III. Troubling Borders: The Ambivalence of Medical Modernization in the Prussian Province of Posen
- IV. The Material Side of Modernity: The Midwife’s Bag in Bosnia and Herzegovina around the Turn of the Century
- II. Public Health After Europe’s World Wars
- V. Who Belongs to the Healthy Body of the Nation? Health and National Integration in Poland and the Polish Army after the First World War
- VI. Transatlantic Humanitarianism: Jewish Child Relief in Budapest after the Great War
- VII. The Bodily Disabled as a Poster Boy-Veteran: War Invalids in the Soviet Union after the Second World War
- VIII. Afflicted Heroes: The Rise and Fall of Yugoslav War Neurosis after the Second World War
- III. Regulating Societies After 1945: State-Socialist Policies and Legacies
- IX. Politics and Family Conflicts through the Psychiatric Lens: East Berlin’s Charité in the early GDR
- X. Turning Women into Alcoholics: The Politics of Alcohol in Late Socialist Czechoslovakia
- XI. “The Gypsy Population Is Constantly Growing”: Roma and the Politics of Reproduction in Cold War Hungary
- XII. Underimplementing the Law: Social Work, Bureaucratic Error, and the Politics of Distribution in Postsocialist Serbia
- Collective Bibliography
- List of Contributors
- Index