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      From the Midwife’s Bag to the Patient’s File. Public Health in Eastern Europe
      From the Midwife’s Bag to the Patient’s File. Public Health in Eastern Europe

      From the Midwife’s Bag to the Patient’s File. Public Health in Eastern Europe

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      This volume offers an analysis of the 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. It not only identifies ideas, discourses and practices of ‘solving’ public health issues that were shared among political regimes in the region. It also uncovers the ways in which the biopolitical organization of the state both originated from and shaped an emerging common European framework. The broad range of local case studies stretches from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czechoslovakia, the GDR, Greece and Hungary, to Poland, Serbia, the Soviet Union, and Yugoslavia. Taking a time span that
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      This volume offers an analysis of the 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. It not only identifies ideas, discourses and practices of ‘solving’ public health issues that were shared among political regimes in the region. It also uncovers the ways in which the biopolitical organization of the state both originated from and shaped an emerging common European framework. The broad range of local case studies stretches from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czechoslovakia, the GDR, Greece and Hungary, to Poland, Serbia, the Soviet Union, and Yugoslavia. Taking a time span that begins in the late nineteenth century and ends in the post-socialist era, the book makes an original contribution to the social history of medicine in Europe’s long twentieth century. Close readings and dense descrip
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      Author
      Karge Heike. et al
      Publisher
      CEU Press
      Central European University Press
      ISBN
      9789633862087
      Format
      Hardcover
      Year Published
      2017
      Pages
      358

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      From the Midwife’s Bag to the Patient’s File. Public Health in Eastern Europe
      From the Midwife’s Bag to the Patient’s File. Public Health in Eastern Europe

      From the Midwife’s Bag to the Patient’s File. Public Health in Eastern Europe

      $70.00