CEU Press Studies in the History of Medicine – serie
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15 produkter
Landscapes of Disease
Malaria in Modern Greece
Inbunden, 2017
1996 kr
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Malaria has existed in Greece since prehistoric times. Its prevalence fluctuated depending on climatic, socioeconomic and political changes. The book focuses on the factors that contributed to the spreading of the disease in the years between independent statehood in 1830 and the elimination of …
In Search of the Perfect Romanian
National Specificity, Racial Degeneration, and Social Selection in Modern Romania
Av Marius Turda
Inbunden, 2026
2130 kr
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This book is the first comprehensive overview of debates about national character and race in modern Romania. It also argues that the Holocaust in Romania should be understood as the result not just of anti-Semitism but also of biopolitical nationalism. Finally, the book suggests that the eugenic …
Catholicism, Race and Empire
Eugenics in Portugal, 1900-1950
Inbunden, 2014
1778 kr
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This monograph places the science and ideology of eugenics in early twentieth century Portugal in the context of manifestations in other countries in the same period. The author argues that three factors limited the impact of eugenics in Portugal: a low level of institutionalization, opposition …
Darwin's Footprint
Cultural Perspectives on Evolution in Greece (1880–1930s)
Inbunden, 2015
1865 kr
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Darwin’s Footprint examines the impact of Darwinism in Greece, investigating how it has shaped Greece in terms of its cultural and intellectual history, and in particular its literature.The book demonstrates that in the late 19th to early 20th centuries Darwinism and associated science strongly …
Darwin's Footprint
Cultural Perspectives on Evolution in Greece (1880–1930s)
Häftad, 2015
921 kr
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Darwin’s Footprint examines the impact of Darwinism in Greece, investigating how it has shaped Greece in terms of its cultural and intellectual history, and in particular its literature.The book demonstrates that in the late 19th to early 20th centuries Darwinism and associated science strongly …
Eugenic Fortress
The Transylvanian Saxon Experiment in Interwar Romania
Inbunden, 2016
1831 kr
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The ever growing library on the history of eugenics and fascism focuses largely on nation states, while this monograph asks why an ethnic minority, the Transylvanian Saxons, turned to eugenics as a means of self-empowerment in interwar Romania. The Eugenic Fortress investigates and unpacks the …
From the Midwife's Bag to the Patient's File
Public Health in Eastern and Southeastern Europe
Av Sara Bernasconi, Friederike Kind-Kovács m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
1938 kr
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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 …
Regenerating Japan
Organicism, Modernism and National Destiny in Oka Asajiro's Evolution and Human Life
Inbunden, 2018
2130 kr
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As the first step toward a comprehensive reinterpretation of the role of evolutionary science and biomedicine in pre-1945 Japan, this book addresses the early writings of that era’s most influential exponent of shinkaron (evolutionism), the German-educated research zoologist and popularizer of …
Physicians, Peasants and Modern Medicine
Imagining Rurality in Romania, 1860-1910
Inbunden, 2019
1831 kr
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This book provides a historical narrative about Romania’s modernization. It focuses on one group of the country’s elites in the late nineteenth century, health professionals, and on the vision of a modern Romania that they constructed as they interacted with peasants and rural life. Doctors …
Strengthening Young Bodies, Building the Nation
A Social History of the Child Health and Welfare in Greece (1890-1940)
Av Despina Karakatsani, Vassiliki Theodorou
Inbunden, 2019
1996 kr
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Stimulated by the development of childhood studies and the social history of medicine, this book lays out the historical circumstances that led to the medicalization of childhood in Greece from the end of the nineteenth century until World War Two. For this span of fifty years, the authors explore …
Perils of Race-Thinking
A Portrait of Ale. Hrdlicka
Inbunden, 2023
1667 kr
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Eugenics and scientific racism are experiencing a resurgence, and an understanding of the ideas of Aleš Hrdlička can help combat them. Today, the racial science of the early twentieth century is both untenable and contemptible. This book is about an arch figure of that period: Aleš Hrdlička served …
In Search of "Aryan Blood"
Serology in Interwar and National Socialist Germany
Inbunden, 2012
1667 kr
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Explores the course of development of German seroanthropology from its origins in World War I until the end of the Third Reich. Gives an all encompassing interpretation of how the discovery of blood groups in around 1900 galvanised not only old mythologies of blood and origin but also new …
Demography and Nation
Social Legislation and Population Policy in Bulgaria
Inbunden, 2011
1831 kr
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The monograph investigates the origins of state policy toward population and the family in Bulgaria. Reconstructs the evolution of state legislation in the field of social policy toward the family between the two World Wars, colored by concerns about the national good and demographic …
Health, Hygiene and Eugenics in Southeastern Europe to 1945
Av Christian Promitzer, Marius Turda m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
2265 kr
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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 …
Building the New Man
Eugenics, Racial Science and Genetics in Twentieth-Century Italy
Inbunden, 2011
2130 kr
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Based on previously unexplored archival documentation, this book offers the first general overview of the history of Italian eugenics, not limited to the decades of Fascist regime, but instead ranging from the beginning of the 1900s to the first half of the 1970s. Discusses several fundamental …
