Strengthening Young Bodies, Building the Nation

A Social History of the Child Health and Welfare in Greece (1890-1940)

Despina Karakatsani, Vassiliki Theodorou (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

376 Seiten

2019
Central European University Press (Verlag)
978-963-386-278-0 (ISBN)

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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 how the national question was bound up with concerns raised about the health of children. They also investigate the various connotations of child health and maternity care in the context of liberal and authoritarian governments, as well as the wider social and cultural changes that took place in this period. Drawing on a wide array of primary and secondary sources, the authors look into the role of doctors, social thinkers and civil servants in the shaping of health policy; the impact of the medical paradigm from Western Europe; and the gradual professionalization of health care in Greece. Theodorou and Karakatsani describe an increasing intervention of the state in the medical supervision of childhood, the relationship between the philanthropic organizations and the state, as well as the impact of the national rivalries and wars on efforts to improve child health.

Despina Karakatsani is Professor at the University of the Peloponnese, Corinth, Greece Vassiliki Theodorou is Assistant Professor at the University of Democritus-Thrace, Komotini, Greece.

Introduction, PART 1: Health and Child Welfare in Greece (1890-1920), PART II: From Moralization to the Social Turn of Medical Concern (1922-1935) , PART III: Child and Maternal Welfare During the Metaxas's Regime (1936-1940), Conclusion, Primary Sources and Bibliography, Name index, Subject index

Erscheinungsdatum	07.08.2019
Reihe/Serie	CEU Press Studies in the History of Medicine
Verlagsort	Budapest
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	860 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	963-386-278-7 / 9633862787
ISBN-13	978-963-386-278-0 / 9789633862780
Zustand	Neuware