From the Midwife's Bag to the Patient's File

Public Health in Eastern and Southeastern Europe
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-963-386-208-7
Verlag: Central European University Press

Buch, Englisch, 358 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 672 g

Reihe: CEU Press Studies in the History of Medicine

This volume offers an analysis of the intertwined relationship between public health and the biopolitical dimensions of state- and nation building in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. It challenges the idea of diverging paths towards modernity of Europe’s western and eastern countries by not only identifying ideas, discourses and practices of “solving” public health issues that were shared among political regimes in the region; it also uncovers the ways in which, since the late nineteenth century, the biopolitical organization of the state both originated from and shaped an emerging common European framework. The broad range of local case studies stretches from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czechoslovakia, the GDR, Greece and Hungary, to Poland, Serbia, the Soviet Union, and Yugoslavia. Taking a time span that begins in the late nineteenth century and ends in the post-socialist era, the book makes an original contribution to scholarship examining the relationship between public health, medicine, and state- and nation building in Europe’s long twentieth century. Close readings and dense descriptions of local discourses and practices of “public” health help to reflect on the transnational and global entanglements in the sphere of public health. In doing so, this volume facilitates comparisons on the regional, European, and global level.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Karge, Heike

Bernasconi, Sara

Kind-Kovács, Friederike

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures, Acknowledgments, Introduction, PART I. Medical Agents and Modern State Building, PART II. Public Health After Europe's World Wars, PART III. Regulating Societies After 1945: State-Socialist Policies and Legacies, Collective Bibliography, List of Contributors, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sara Bernasconi defended her PhD in history in July 2017 at the University of Zurich with a dissertation about Habsburg’s Midwives in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She studied History and Slavic Linguistics at the Universities in Zurich, Basel, and Zagreb.

Friederike Kind-Kovács is Assistant Professor at the Chair for Southeast and East European History, University of Regensburg and a postdoctoral fellow of the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies (Regensburg/Munich).

Heike Karge is Assistant Professor at the Chair for Southeast and East European History, University of Regensburg.