1st Edition
Strengthening Young Bodies, Building the Nation A Social History of the Child Health and Welfare in Greece (1890-1940)
376 Pages
by
Central European University Press
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... Read more
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
Biography
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.
