CEU Press Studies in the History of Medicine
The Perils of Race-Thinking: A Portrait of Ale. Hrdlicka
1st Edition
By Mark A. Brandon
May 15, 2023
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 ...
Making Muslim Women European: Voluntary Associations, Gender, and Islam in Post-Ottoman Bosnia and Yugoslavia (1878-1941)
1st Edition
By Fabio Giomi
April 30, 2021
This social, cultural, and political history of Slavic Muslim women of the Yugoslav region in the first decades of the post-Ottoman era is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of the issues confronting these women. It is based on a study of voluntary associations (philanthropic, cultural, ...
Strengthening Young Bodies, Building the Nation: A Social History of the Child Health and Welfare in Greece (1890-1940)
1st Edition
By Despina Karakatsani, Vassiliki Theodorou
July 18, 2019
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 ...
Physicians, Peasants, and Modern Medicine: Imagining Rurality in Romania, 1860-1910
1st Edition
By Constantin Barbulescu
April 10, 2019
This monograph, a coherent and consistent historical narrative about Romania's modernization, focuses on one section of the country's elites of the late nineteenth century, namely the health professionals, and on the imagery they constructed as they interacted with the peasant and his world. ...
Regenerating Japan: Organicism, Modernism and National Destiny in Oka Asajiro's Evolution and Human Life
1st Edition
By Gregory Sullivan
August 10, 2018
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 ...
Landscapes of Disease: Malaria in Modern Greece
1st Edition
By Katerina Gardikas
February 05, 2018
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 ...
From the Midwife's Bag to the Patient's File: Public Health in Eastern and Southeastern Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Sara Bernasconi, Friederike Kind-Kovács, Heike Karge
January 10, 2018
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 ...
The Eugenic Fortress: The Transylvanian Saxon Experiment in Interwar Romania
1st Edition
By Tudor Georgescu
October 10, 2016
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 ...
Darwin's Footprint: Cultural Perspectives on Evolution in Greece (1880-1930s)
1st Edition
By Maria Zarimis
March 10, 2015
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 ...
Catholicism, Race and Empire: Eugenics in Portugal, 1900-1950
1st Edition
By Richard Cleminson
September 01, 2014
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 ...
In Search of "Aryan Blood": Serology in Interwar and National Socialist Germany
1st Edition
By Rachel E. Boaz
March 15, 2012
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 ...
Building the New Man: Eugenics, Racial Science and Genetics in Twentieth-Century Italy
1st Edition
By Francesco Cassata
May 15, 2011
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 ...