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

Sara Bernasconi, Friederike Kind-Kovács, Heike Karge (eds)

Title: From the Midwife's Bag to the Patient's File
Subtitle: Public Health in Eastern and Southeastern Europe
Editors: Sara Bernasconi; Friederike Kind-Kovács; Heike Karge
Price: € 145,99
ISBN: 9789633862094
Format: eBook PDF (Adobe DRM)
Number of pages: 358
Language: English
Publication date: 10 - 01 - 2018
Series: CEU Press Studies in the History of Medicine
Category: History of Medicine, Science & Technology
Discipline: Social and Political Sciences
Imprint: CEU Press
Also available as: Hardback - € 146,00

Table of Contents

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List of Figures
Acknowledgments

Introduction: From the Midwife’s Bag to the Patient’s File: Public Health in Eastern Europe
Heike Karge, Friederike Kind-Kovács and Sara Bernasconi

PART I. Medical Agents and Modern State Building
Chapter 1. Moving Backward Toward Modernity: The Role of the Medical Council in the Organization of Public Health in Greece, 1834–1924
Maria Zarifi
Chapter 2. Creating the “Railway Population”: Public Health and Statistics in Late Imperial Russia
Angelika Strobel
Chapter 3. Mastering Troubling Borders: The Ambivalence of Medical Modernization in the Prussian Province of Posen
Justyna A. Turkowska
Chapter 4. The Material Side of Modernity: The Midwife’s Bag in Bosnia and Herzegovina around the Turn of the Century
Sara Bernasconi

PART II. Public Health After Europe’s World Wars
Chapter 5. Who Belongs to the Healthy Body of the Nation? Health and National Integration in Poland and the Polish Army after the First World War
Katrin Steffen
Chapter 6. Transatlantic Humanitarianism: Jewish Child Relief in Budapest after the Great War
Friederike Kind-Kovács
Chapter 7. The Bodily Disabled as a Poster Boy-Veteran: War Invalids in the Soviet Union after the Second World War
Alexander Friedman
Chapter 8. Afflicted Heroes: The Rise and Fall of Yugoslav War Neurosis after the Second World War
Heike Karge

PART III. Regulating Societies After 1945: State-Socialist Policies and Legacies
Chapter 9. Politics and Family Conflicts through the Psychiatric Lens: East Berlin’s Charité in the early GDR
Fanny Le Bonhomme
Chapter 10. Turning Women into Alcoholics: The Politics of Alcohol in Late Socialist Czechoslovakia
Esther Wahlen
Chapter 11. “The Gypsy Population Is Constantly Growing”: Roma and the Politics of Reproduction in Cold War Hungary
Eszter Varsa
Chapter 12. Underimplementing the Law: Social Work, Bureaucratic Error, and the Politics of Distribution in Postsocialist Serbia
Andre Thiemann

Collective Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index

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

Public Health in Eastern and Southeastern Europe

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.

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Editors

Sara Bernasconi

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

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).