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Health, hygiene, and eugenics in southeastern Europe to 1945 / edited by Christian Promitzer, Sevasti Trubeta, Marius Turda.

Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoBudapest ; New York : Central European University Press,
Descriptionvii, 466 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Supplemental Content Full text available from UPCC Books 2011 History Collection Supplement
Subject(s)
Eugenics--Balkan Peninsula --History.
Public health--Balkan Peninsula --History.
Public Health--history --Europe, Eastern.
Public Health--history --Greece.
Eugenics--history --Europe, Eastern.
Eugenics--history --Greece.
Health Policy--history --Europe, Eastern.
Health Policy--history --Greece.
History, 19th Century--Europe, Eastern.
History, 19th Century--Greece.
History, 20th Century--Europe, Eastern.
History, 20th Century--Greece.
Social Medicine--history --Europe, Eastern.
Social Medicine--history --Greece.
Other author/creatorPromitzer, Christian.
Other author/creatorTroumpeta, Sevastē.
Other author/creatorTurda, Marius.
Other author/creatorCentral European University.
Series CEU Press studies in the history of medicine ; v. 2
CEU Press studies in the history of medicine ; v. 2. ^A1321262
Contents Racial expertise and German eugenic strategies for southeastern Europe / Paul Weindling -- 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 Gardikas -- 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 / Leljko Dugac -- -
Contents 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 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 -- Remapping the historiography of modernization and state-building in southeastern Europe through hygiene, health, and eugenics / Maria Bucur.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2010036918
ISBN9789639776821 (cloth)
ISBN9639776823 (cloth)

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