Health, Hygiene and Eugenics in Southeastern Europe until 1945

Top of CEU Press sales list 2011:
1. Media, Nationalism and European Identities
2. Masterpieces of History
3. Nation, Language, Islam
4. Health, Hygiene and Eugenics in Southeastern Europe
5. Promises of 1968

Download our 2012 Spring/Summer Catalog: New Titles and Backlist

CEU Press has become a full member of the Association of European University Presses

"The book will doubtless serve generations of scholars, whether their interest focuses primarily on the history of medieval Hungary or on the Hospitaller Order". - Crusades

"The contributors to this volume demonstrate how traditional, provincial and nationalist values, referred to as uncivic, still obstruct the European aspirations of the biggest republic of the former Yugoslavia... I most warmly recommend this volume." - International Affairs

Available in Kindle edition:
Higher Education and the American Dream
Prague Tales
Whitehorn's Windmill

Health, Hygiene and Eugenics in Southeastern Europe to 1945

Edited by
Christian Promitzer, assistant professor at the Center for Southeast-European History at the Institute of History, University of Graz
Sevasti Trubeta, assistant professor at the University of the Aegean, Department of Sociology (Mytiline) and affiliated with the Free University of Berlin (Venia legendi candidate).
Marius Turda, RCUK Academic Fellow in Central and Eastern European Medicine at Oxford Brookes University and founder of the Working Group on the History of Race and Eugenics (HRE).

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.

Contents

Introduction : Framing Issues of Health, Hygiene and Eugenics in Southeastern Europe
Christian Promitzer, Sevasti Trubeta and Marius Turda
Part I: German Eugenic Paradigms
Racial Expertise and German Eugenic Strategies for Southeastern Europe, Paul Weindling
Part II: Hygiene and Health Politics
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 Gardika
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, Željko Dugac
Part III: Eugenics and Reproduction
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, 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
Part IV: New Research Agendas
Remapping the Historiography of Modernization and State-Building in Southeastern Europe through Hygiene, Health and Eugenics, Maria Bucur

2011
440 pages
ISBN 978-963-9776-82-1 cloth $50.00 / €44.95 / £40.00