1st Edition
From the Midwife's Bag to the Patient's File Public Health in Eastern and Southeastern Europe
358 Pages
by
Central European University Press
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 not only identifying ideas, discourses and practices of “solving” public health issues that were... Read more
List of Figures, Acknowledgments, Introduction, PART I. Medical Agents and Modern State Building, PART II. Public Health After Europe's World Wars, PART III. Regulating Societies After 1945: State-Socialist Policies and Legacies, Collective Bibliography, List of Contributors, Index
Biography
Sara Bernasconi defended her PhD in history in July 2017 at the University of Zurich with a dissertation about Habsburg’s Midwives in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She studied History and Slavic Linguistics at the Universities in Zurich, Basel, and Zagreb.
Friederike Kind-Kovács is Assistant Professor at the Chair for Southeast and East European History, University of Regensburg and a postdoctoral fellow of the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies (Regensburg/Munich).
Heike Karge is Assistant Professor at the Chair for Southeast and East European History, University of Regensburg.
