From the Midwife's Bag to the Patient's File : : Public Health in Eastern and Southeastern Europe /

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2018
MitwirkendeR:
Bernasconi, Sara,
Friedman, Alexander,
Karge, Heike,
Kind-Kovács, Friederike,
Le Bonhomme, Fanny,
Steffen, Katrin,
Strobel, Angelika,
Thiemann, Andre,
Turkowska, Justyna A.,
Varsa, Eszter,
Wahlen, Esther,
Zarifi, Maria,
HerausgeberIn:
Bernasconi, Sara,
Karge, Heike,
Kind-Kovács, Friederike,
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

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