Health, Hygiene and Eugenics in Southeastern Europe to 1945 (CEU Press Studies in the History of Medicine)

This volume is a collection of chapters that deal with issues of health, hygiene and eugenics in Southeastern Europe to 1945, specifically, in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece and Romania. Its major concern is to examine the transfer of medical ideas to society via local, national and international agencies and to show in how far developments in public health, preventive medicine, social hygiene, welfare, gender relations and eugenics followed a regional pattern. This volume provides insights into a region that has to date been marginal to scholarship of the social history of medicine. Acknowledgements vii INTRODUCTION Framing Issues of Health, Hygiene and Eugenics in Southeastern Europe 1 Christian Promitzer, Sevasti Trubeta, Marius Turda PART I: German Eugenic Paradigms Racial Expertise and German Eugenic Strategies for Southeastern Europe 27 Paul Weindling PART II: Hygiene and Health Politics Orientalizing Disease. Austro-Hungarian Policies of ‘Race,’ Gender and Hygiene in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1874–1914 57 Brigitte Fuchs Typhus, Turks, and Roma: Hygiene and Ethnic Difference in Bulgaria, 1912–1944 87 Christian Promitzer Health Policy and Private Care: Malaria Sanitization in Early Twentieth Century Greece 127 Katerina Gardikas Combating Infant Mortality in Bulgaria: Welfare Activities, National Propaganda, and the Establishment of Pediatrics, 1900–1940 143 Kristina Popova Politics, Modernization and Public Health in Greece: The Case of Occupational Health, 1900–1940 165 Leda Papastefanaki “Like Yeast in Fermentation”: Public Health in Interwar Yugoslavia 193 Željko Dugac PART III: Eugenics and Reproduction Marital Health and Eugenics in Bulgaria, 1878–1940 233 Gergana Mircheva Eugenic Birth Control and Prenuptial Health Certification in Interwar Greece 271 Sevasti Trubeta Eugenics and Puericulture: Medical Attempts to Improve the Biological Capital in Interwar Greece 299 Vassiliki Theodorou and Despina Karakatsani Controlling the National Body: Ideas of Racial Purification in Romania, 1918–1944 325 Marius Turda The Eugenic Fortress: Alfred Csallner and the Saxon Eugenic Discourse in Interwar Romania 351 Tudor Georgescu Fighting the White Plague: Demography and Abortion in the Independent State of Croatia 385 Rory Yeomans PART IV: New Research Agendas Remapping the Historiography of Modernization and State-Building in Southeastern Europe through Health, Hygiene and Eugenics 427 Maria Bucur Contributors 447 Index 451 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 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 interwar Romania / 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. This volume is a collection of chapters that deal with issues of health, hygiene and eugenics in Southeastern Europe to 1945, specifically, in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece and Romania. It examines the transfer of medical ideas to society via local, national and international agencies.