Health, hygiene, and eugenics in southeastern Europe to 1945
By: edited by Christian Promitzer, Sevasti Trubeta, Marius Turda
Contributors: Troumpeta, Sevastē; Central European University
Series: CEU Press studies in the history of medicine -- v. 2; CEU Press studies in the history of medicine -- v. 2.
Publisher: Central European University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Budapest
Language: eng
Number of pages: 466
ISBN-13: 9789639776821
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Racial expertise and German eugenic strategies for southeastern Europe / Paul Weindling; title: Orientalizing disease : Austro-Hungarian policies of race, gender, and hygiene in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1874-1914 / Brigitte Fuchs; title: Typhus, Turks, and Roma : hygiene and ethnic difference in Bulgaria, 1912-1944 / Christian Promitzer; title: Health policy and private care : malaria sanitization in early twentieth century Greece / Katerina Gardikas; title: Combating infant mortality in Bulgaria : welfare activities, national propaganda, and the establishment of pediatrics, 1900-1940 / Kristina Popova; title: Politics, modernization, and public health in Greece : the case of occupational health, 1900-1940 / Leda Papastefanaki; title: 'Like yeast in fermentation' : public health in interwar Yugoslavia / Leljko Dugac; title: Marital health and eugenics in Bulgaria, 1878-1940 / Gergana Mircheva; title: Eugenic birth control and prenuptial health certification in interwar Greece / Sevasti Trubeta; title: Eugenics and 'puericulture' : medical attempts to improve the 'biological capital' in interwar Greece / Vassiliki Theodorou and Despina Karakatsani; title: Controlling the national body : ideas of racial purification in interwar Romania / Marius turda; title: The Eugenic Fortress : Alfred Csallner and the Saxon eugenic discourse in interwar Romania / Tudor Georgescu; title: Fighting the white plague : demography and abortion in the independent state of Croatia / Rory Yeomans; title: Remapping the historiography of modernization and state-building in southeastern Europe through hygiene, health, and eugenics / Maria Bucur.