Full Description
This volume is a collection of chapters that deal with issues of health, hygiene and eugenics in Southeastern Europe to 1945, specifically, in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece and Romania. Its major concern is to examine the transfer of medical ideas to society via local, national and international agencies and to show in how far developments in public health, preventive medicine, social hygiene, welfare, gender relations and eugenics followed a regional pattern. This volume provides insights into a region that has to date been marginal to scholarship of the social history of medicine.
Contents
Introduction : Framing Issues of Health, Hygiene and Eugenics in Southeastern Europe Christian Promitzer, Sevasti Trubeta and Marius Turda Part I: German Eugenic Paradigms Racial Expertise and German Eugenic Strategies for Southeastern Europe, Paul Weindling Part II: Hygiene and Health Politics Orientalizing Disease. Austro-Hungarian Policies of 'Race,' Gender and Hygiene in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1874-1914, Brigitte Fuchs Typhus, Turks, and Roma: Hygiene and Ethnic Difference in Bulgaria, 1912-1944, Christian Promitzer Health Policy and Private Care: Malaria Sanitization in Early Twentieth Century Greece, Katerina Gardika Combating Infant Mortality in Bulgaria: Welfare Activities, National Propaganda, and the Establishment of Pediatrics, 1900-1940, Kristina Popova Politics, Modernization and Public Health in Greece: The Case of Occupational Health, 1900-1940, Leda Papastefanaki 'Like Yeast in Fermentation': Public Health in Interwar Yugoslavia, Željko Dugac Part III: Eugenics and Reproduction Marital Health and Eugenics in Bulgaria, 1878-1940, Gergana Mircheva Eugenic Birth Control and Prenuptial Health Certification in Interwar Greece, Sevasti Trubeta Eugenics and 'Puericulture': Medical Attempts to Improve the 'Biological Capital' in Interwar Greece, Vassiliki Theodorou and Despina Karakatsani Controlling the National Body: Ideas of Racial Purification in Interwar Romania, 1918-1944, Marius Turda The Eugenic Fortress: Alfred Csallner and the Saxon Eugenic Discourse in Interwar Romania, Tudor Georgescu Fighting the White Plague: Demography and Abortion in the Independent State of Croatia, Rory Yeomans Part IV: New Research Agendas Remapping the Historiography of Modernization and State-Building in Southeastern Europe through Hygiene, Health and Eugenics, Maria Bucur
