1st Edition
Physicians, Peasants, and Modern Medicine Imagining Rurality in Romania, 1860-1910
By Constantin Barbulescu
Copyright 2019
308 Pages
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Central European University Press
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. Doctors ventured out of cities and became a familiar sight on dusty country roads in of Moldavia and... Read more
Acknowledgements, Introduction, PART I. Romania Through the Eyes of Doctors, PART II. Medical Discourse on the Peasant and the Village, PART III. Medical Culture vs. Peasant Culture, Conclusions, Bibliography, Index of Names
Biography
Constantin Barbulescu is lecturer in modern history, archival studies and ethnology at the Department of History and Philosophy of the Babes-Bolyai University, in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. In 2011 he obtained another doctorate in anthropology and ethnology from the University of Perugia.
