Health, hygiene, and eugenics in southeastern Europe to 1945 /

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Imprint:Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2010.
Description:1 online resource (vii, 466 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:English
Series:CEU Press studies in the history of medicine ; v. 2
CEU Press studies in the history of medicine ; v. 2.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/14145616
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Other authors / contributors:Promitzer, Christian, editor.
Troumpeta, Sevastē, editor.
Turda, Marius, editor.
ISBN:9789639776821
9639776823
9789639776883
9639776882
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Other form:Print version: Health, hygiene, and eugenics in southeastern Europe to 1945. Budapest : Central European University Press, 2010 9789639776821
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Framing Issues of Health, Hygiene and Eugenics in Southeastern Europe
  • Part I. German Eugenic Paradigms
  • Racial Expertise and German Eugenic Strategies for Southeastern Europe
  • Part II. Hygiene and Health Politics
  • Orientalizing Disease. Austro-Hungarian Policies of 'Race,' Gender and Hygiene in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1874-1914
  • Typhus, Turks, and Roma: Hygiene and Ethnic Difference in Bulgaria, 1912-1944
  • Health Policy and Private Care: Malaria Sanitization in Early Twentieth Century Greece
  • Combating Infant Mortality in Bulgaria: Welfare Activities, National Propaganda, and the Establishment of Pediatrics, 1900-1940
  • Politics, Modernization and Public Health in Greece: The Case of Occupational Health, 1900-1940
  • ôLike Yeast in Fermentationö: Public Health in Interwar Yugoslavia
  • Part III. Eugenics and Reproduction
  • Marital Health and Eugenics in Bulgaria, 1878-1940
  • Eugenic Birth Control and Prenuptial Health Certification in Interwar Greece
  • Eugenics and Puericulture: Medical Attempts to Improve the Biological Capital in Interwar Greece
  • Controlling the National Body: Ideas of Racial Purification in Romania, 1918-1944
  • The Eugenic Fortress: Alfred Csallner and the Saxon Eugenic Discourse in Interwar Romania
  • Fighting the White Plague: Demography and Abortion in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Part IV. New Research Agendas
  • Remapping the Historiography of Modernization and State-Building in Southeastern Europe through Health, Hygiene and Eugenics
  • Contributors
  • Index