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

Explores how the Great War influenced the construction of identity and nationalism in the Ottoman Empire Yucel Yanikdag explores how, during the Great War, Ottoman prisoners of war and military doctors discursively constructed their nation as a community, and at the same time attempted to exclude ce...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Yanikdağ, Yücel (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2013]
Temas:
1900-1999
World War, 1914-1918 > Prisoners and prisons, Turkish.
Medicine > Turkey > History > 20th century.
Nationalism > Turkey > History > 20th century.
HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century.
HISTORY > Europe > Western.
Medicine.
Nationalism.
Kriegsgefangener
Medizinische Versorgung
Nationalismus
Turkey.
Osmanisches Reich
Türkei
Electronic books.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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: neuropsychiatry, social pathology and anxieties over national health
  • Epilogue: the search for a useable past: prisoners of war, the Ottoman Great War and Turkish nationalism.

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