Healing the nation : prisoners of war, medicine and nationalism in Turkey, 1914-1939 / Yucel Yanikdag.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yanikdağ, Yücel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--Prisoners and prisons, Turkish.

World War, 1914-1918.

Medicine--Turkey--History--20th century.

Medicine.

Nationalism--Turkey--History--20th century.

Nationalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 303 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Yucel Yanikdag explores how, during the First World War, Ottoman prisoners of war and military doctors discursively constructed their nation as a community, and at the same time attempted to exclude certain groups from that nation. Those excluded were not always from different ethnic or religious groups as you might expect. The educated officer prisoners excluded the uncivilised and illiterate peasants from their concept of the nation, while doctors used international socio-medicine to exclude all those ́€" officers, enlisted men, civilians ́€" they deemed to be hereditarily weak.

Contents:

The Ottoman Great War and captivity in Russia and Egypt

Imagining community and identity in Russia and Egypt: a comparison

Saviour sons of the nation: inside the prisoners' minds

Prisoners as disease carriers: cases of Pellagra and trachoma

War neuroses and prisoners of war: wartime nervous breakdown and the politics of medical interpretation

Degenerationist pathway to eugenics: neuro-psychiatry, social pathology and anxieties over national health

Epilogue: The search for a useable past: Prisoners of war, the Ottoman Great War and Turkish nationalism.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

978-0-7486-6579-2

0-7486-8926-5

0-7486-6579-X

OCLC:

850161632