Strengthening Young Bodies, Building the Nation : : A Social History of the Child Health and Welfare in Greece (1890–1940) / / Vassiliki Theodorou, Despina Karakatsani.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Theodorou, Vassiliki,; Karakatsani, Despina,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: CEU Press Studies in the History of Medicine
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (376 p.)

Stimulated by the development of childhood studies and the social history of medicine, this book lays out the historical circumstances that led to the medicalization of childhood in Greece from the end of the nineteenth century until World War Two. For this span of fifty years, the authors explore how the national question was bound up with concerns raised about the health of children. They also investigate the various connotations of child health and maternity care in the context of liberal and authoritarian governments, as well as the wider social and cultural changes that took place in this period. Drawing on a wide array of primary and secondary sources, the authors look into the role of doctors, social thinkers and civil servants in the shaping of health policy; the impact of the medical paradigm from Western Europe; and the gradual professionalization of health care in Greece. Theodorou and Karakatsani describe an increasing intervention of the state in the medical supervision of childhood, the relationship between the philanthropic organizations and the state, as well as the impact of the national rivalries and wars on efforts to improve child health.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Part I. HEALTH AND CHILDREN’S WELFARE IN GREECE (1890–1920) -- Chapter I. THE EMERGENCE OF INTEREST IN CHILDREN’S HEALTH -- Chapter II. CONCERNS ABOUT STUDENT HEALTH AND THE FIRST HEALTHCARE STEPS IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY -- Chapter III. THE SCHOOL HYGIENE SERVICE AND THE SPREAD OF HYGIENE -- Chapter IV. MODERNITY AND WELFARE INSTITUTIONS FOR CHILD HEALTH -- Part II. FROM MORALIZATION TO THE SOCIAL TURN IN MEDICAL CONCERN (1922–1935) -- Chapter V. HEALTH AS A PUBLIC GOOD DURING THE INTERWAR PERIOD -- Chapter VI. THE ARRIVAL OF REFUGEES: NEW PRIORITIES AND SHIFTING TARGETS -- Chapter VII. THE LIBERAL GOVERNMENT AND THE PROTECTION OF CHILDHOOD AND MOTHERHOOD: LANDMARKS AND CONTINUITIES (1928–1932) -- Part III. CHILDREN’S AND MATERNAL WELFARE DURING THE METAXAS REGIME (1936–1940) -- Chapter VIII. SOCIAL POLICY AND THE IDEOLOGY OF THE REGIME -- Chapter IX. THE POLITICAL USE OF MOTHERHOOD AND CHILDHOOD WELFARE -- CONCLUSION -- PRIMARY SOURCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY -- NAME INDEX -- SUBJECT INDEX