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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Karge, Heike.

Contributor:

Kind-Kovács, Friederike.

Bernasconi, Sara.

Series:

CEU Press Studies in the History of Medicine Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (360 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Budapest : Central European University Press, 2018.

Summary:

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Contents:

Cover

Series title page

Title page

Copyright page

TABLE OF CONTENTS

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION: From the Midwife's Bag to the Patient's File: Public Health in Eastern Europe

PART I. Medical Agents and Modern State Building

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

Chapter II Creating the "Railway Population": Public Health and Statistics in Late Imperial Russia

Chapter III Mastering Troubling Borders: The Ambivalence of Medical Modernization in the Prussian Province of Posen

Chapter IV The Material Side of Modernity: The Midwife's Bag in Bosnia and Herzegovina around the Turn of the Century

PART II. Public Health After Europe's World Wars

Chapter 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

Chapter VI Transatlantic Humanitarianism: Jewish Child Relief in Budapest after the Great War

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

Chapter VIII Afflicted Heroes: The Rise and Fall of Yugoslav War Neurosis after the Second World War

PART III. Regulating Societies After 1945: State-Socialist Policies and Legacies

Chapter IX Politics and Family Conflicts through the Psychiatric Lens: East Berlin's Charité in the early GDR

Chapter X Turning Women into Alcoholics: The Politics of Alcohol in Late Socialist Czechoslovakia

Chapter XI "The Gypsy Population Is Constantly Growing": Roma and the Politics of Reproduction in Cold War Hungary

Chapter XII Underimplementing the Law: Social Work, Bureaucratic Error, and the Politics of Distribution in Postsocialist Serbia

Collective Bibliography

List of Contributors

Index.

back cover.

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Other Format:

Print version: Karge, Heike From the Midwife's Bag to the Patient's File

ISBN:

9789633862094

OCLC:

1034627100