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

The volume discusses the social and cultural history of public health and its influence on state and nation building in East and Southeast Europe, which evolved with the 19th century and stretched throughout the 20th century, including the Cold War period. The national case studies include Bosnia an...

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Autor principal: Bernasconi, Sara
Otros Autores: Kind-Kovacs, Friederike, Karge, Heike
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Budapest : Central European University Press, 2018.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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  • 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 PosenChapter 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 WarChapter 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 Charite 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 HungaryChapter XII Underimplementing the Law: Social Work, Bureaucratic Error, and the Politics of Distribution in Postsocialist Serbia; Collective Bibliography; List of Contributors; Index; back cover.