Health, Hygiene, and Eugenics in Southeastern Europe to 1945

Download or read book Health, Hygiene, and Eugenics in Southeastern Europe to 1945 written by Christian Promitzer and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.