From the midwife's bag to the patient's file : public health in Eastern Europe / edited by Heike Karge, Friederike Kind-Kovács, and Sara Bernasconi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Karge, Heike, editor.

Series:

CEU Press studies in the history of medicine ; v. 9.

CEU Press studies in the history of medicine, 2079-1119 ; volume IX

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public health--Social aspects--Europe, Eastern--History--19th century.

Public health.

Public health--Social aspects--Europe, Eastern--History--20th century.

History, 19th Century.

Public health--Social aspects.

History.

Europe, Eastern.

Eastern Europe.

Medical Subjects:

History, 19th Century.

Europe, Eastern.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 348 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2017.

Summary:

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 only identifying ideas, discourses and practices of?solving? public health issues that were shared among political regimes in the region; it also uncovers the ways in which, since the late nineteenth century, the biopolitical organization of the state both originated from and shaped an emerging common European framework.00The broad range of local case studies stretches from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czechoslovakia, the GDR, Greece, and Hungary, to Poland, Serbia, the Soviet Union, and Yugoslavia. Taking a time span that begins in the late nineteenth century and ends in the post-socialist era, the book makes an original contribution to scholarship examining the relationship between public health, medicine, and state- and nation building in Europe?s long twentieth century. Close readings and dense descriptions of local discourses and practices of?public? health help to reflect on the transnational and global entanglements in the sphere of public health. In doing so, this volume facilitates comparisons on the regional, European, and global level.

Contents:

Part I Medical Agents and Modern State Building 25

Chapter I Moving Backward Toward Modernity: The Role of the Medical Council in the Organization of Public Health in Greece, 1834-1924 / Maria Zarifi Zarifi, Maria 27

Chapter II Creating the "Railway Population": Public Health and Statistics in Late Imperial Russia / Angelika Strobel Strobel, Angelika 51

Chapter III Mastering Troubling Borders: The Ambivalence of Medical Modernization in the Prussian Province of Posen / Justyna A. Turkowska Turkowska, Justyna A. 73

Chapter IV The Material Side of Modernity: The Midwife's Bag is Bosnia and Herzegovina around the Turn of the Century / Sara Bernasconi Bernasconi, Sara 97

Part II Public Health After Europe's World Wars 117

Chapter V Who Belongs to the Healthy Body of the Nation? Health and National Integration in Polant and the Polish Army after the First World War / Katrin Steffen Steffen, Katrin 119

Chapter VI Transatlantic Humanitatianism: Jewish Child Relief in Budapest after the Great War / Friederike Kind-Kovács Kind-Kovács, Friederike 145

Chapter VII The Bodily Disabled as a Poster Boy-Veteran: War Invalids in the Soviet Union after the Second World War / Alexander Friedman Friedman, Alexander 173

Chapter VIII Afflicted Heroes: The Rise and Fall of Yugoslav War Neurosis after the Second World War / Heike Karge Karge, Heike 195

Part III Regulating Societies After 1945: State-Socialist Policies and Legacies 217

Chapter IX Politics and Family Conflicts through the Psychiatric Lens: East Berlin's Charité in the early GDR / Fanny Le Bonhomme Bonhomme, Fanny Le 219

Chapter X Turning Women into Alcoholics: The Politics of Alcohol in Late Socialist Czechoslovakia / Esther Wahlen Wahlen, Esther 243

Chapter XI "The Gypsy Population If Constantly Growing": Roma and the Politics of Reproduction in Cold War Hungary / Eszter Varsa Varsa, Eszter 263

Chapter XII Underimplementing the Law: Social World, Bureaucratic Error, and the Politics of Distribution in Postsocialist Serbia / Andre Thiemann Thiemann, Andre 293.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: From the midwife's bag to the patient's file.

ISBN:

9789633862087

9633862086

OCLC:

1005189484