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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Theodōrou, Vasilikē, author.

Karakatsani, Despina, 1967- author.

Series:

CEU Press studies in the history of medicine ; v. 12.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social medicine--Greece--History.

Social medicine.

Maternal health services--Greece--History.

Maternal health services.

Child health services--Greece--History.

Child health services.

Children--Health and hygiene--Greece--History.

Children.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (376 pages).

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019

Summary:

Stimulated by the development of both childhood studies and the social history of medicine, this book contextualizes the historical circumstances that led to the medicalization of childhood in Greece from the end of the nineteenth century until World War II. By examining this issue in the span of fifty years, the authors explore how the national question was entwined with concerns raised about the health of children. They also investigate the various connotations that child health and maternity care carried in the context of liberal and authoritarian governments as well as the wider social and cultural changes that took place during this period. Drawing upon a wide array of primary and secondary sources, they look into the role the initiatives of doctors, social thinkers and state functionaries played in shaping health policy; the impact of medical elites from the western European paradigm; and the gradual professionalization of health care in Greece. The main findings of the analysis regard the ever growing intervention of the state in the medical supervision of childhood, the particular relationship between the philanthropic organizations and the state, as well as the impact the national rivalries and wars had on the intensification of the attempts undertaken for the amelioration of the health of the younger generation.

Contents:

The emergence of interest in child health

Concerns about student health and the first steps in the early twentieth century

The school medical service and the spread of hygiene

Modernity and welfare institutions for child health

Health as public good during the interwar period

The arrival of refugees : new priorities and readjustment of targets

The liberal government and the protection of childhood and motherhood : landmarks and continuities (1928-1932)

Social policy and the ideology of the regime

The political use of motherhood and childhood welfare.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-003-72209-1

963-386-279-5

9781003722090

OCLC:

1128392125